----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Richie" <disturbed1...@gmail.com> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 20:55 PM Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Problems unraring archives downloaded with PAN.
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM, David Kelly <dke...@hiwaay.net> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:42:52PM -0700, Travis wrote: >>> >>> His command line didn't work. >> >> No kidding? Perhaps that is why the OP posted? As I explained earlier >> the unrar command line has an unusual uncommon syntax. >> >>> Double clicking always works for me. >> >> Not helping by not providing *any* detail as to why it works. As to >> what hooks were installed, what optional packages, or even what desktop >> you are running? >> >> I have the latest KDE installed, but I find its GUI file navigation too >> clumsy and use command line in a terminal window. OTOH I'm happy with >> Finder in MacOS X. Yet I still supplement with Terminal.app on Mac. >> >> You know that one can mount a .iso file by double-clicking in MacOS X? >> Clearly the solution to mounting .iso files is for everyone to run >> MacOS X. >> >> -- >> David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net >> ======================================================================== >> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pan-users mailing list >> Pan-users@nongnu.org >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users >> > > unrar x $file > extracts $file with the full path. If the archive contains a folder > blah with file blah.blah. Using unrar x will produce > $PWD/blah/blah.blah. > > unrar e $file > extracts $file to current directory without rebuilding the folder > structure. Following the above example you would end up with blah.blah > in the current directory. > > If the OPs command is not a typo, the problem is with the '/' 's There > most likely isn't a rar archive located at / nor have write > permissions to / . IF there is a rar archive in / and does have write > permission to / there's a whole other set of problems here. > > User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) I do believe that > qualifies as Linux? > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.16670 <-- Could be why > double clicking also works for you. Exactly. Vista just works. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
