[ale] rar file, can anything read it on Linux?

[Jerald Sheets]

I've quietly wondered that to myself of late as well.

Ideas?

--Jerald


On Apr 19, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Mike Millson wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 08:38, Jim wrote:
>> Someone sent me a .rar file.  I've never heard of that format.  Is  
>> there
>> a utility on Linux that will read it? If not, what Windows utility  
>> reads it?
>>
>
> I had not heard of a rar file until a couple months ago. Now I'm  
> seeing
> it all over. What is driving the use of this compression format?  
> Does it
> do a better job than zip or gzip? Why do we need yet another  
> compression
> format?
>
> Mike
>
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