On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:13:15 +0200, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: > On 09/28/11 13:40, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:37:52 -0400, RiverWind wrote: >> >>> Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or convert >>> archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is pretty >>> ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at least not >>> the Debian distro. Consequently, to the best of my knowledge, the >>> "unrar" utility can't be installed and/or used on a Linux system. I >>> have gotten suggestions concerning certain utilities, but they were >>> windows applications. Any help would be most sincerely appreciated. >> >> "rar" and "unrar" utilities are both supported in Linux and Debian but >> I would avoid using them in favor of an open compression tool/file >> formats (such as bz2, lzma, gz, etc...) >> > Among those "etc", let me point at sevenzip, it's probably the closest > you can get to winrar
Mmm, you mean the file archiver application (7-Zip) or file archiver format (.7z)? For the former I can't tell, I stopped using it in favor of PeaZip (I love that small and portable app) and for the .7z file format, if this information is still true¹ (can you confirm/reject? :-?) I don't think is the most suitable for archiving in linux boxes. ¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z#Limitations Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.29.11.55...@gmail.com
