Andy Random wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Adam Trickett wrote:
>
>
>> Wikipedia says that 7zip for windows can decompress rar files without
>> expiring. It also says that the decoder is open source and available, though
>> not very up to date.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR
>>
>
> Thanks Adam, but as far as I can tell Wikipedia, or probably to be more
> exact 7zip is lying :(
>
> When I try to open an rar file in 7zip I get a "not supported archive"
> error.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Andy
>
That's odd. I have 7zip on my WinXP computer at work. I'm pretty sure I put
it there specifically to open a RAR file, which it did. I can check
tomorrow -
the RAR file is still there. Perhaps there's more than one version of
the RAR
format.
MikeD
