[NTLUG:Discuss] RAR

[./aal]

"George E. Lass" wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a linux utility to decompress a "rar" archive
> that will either run on a command line or GNOME desktop?  I already
> found KArchive but it will only run under KDE.


<unrar.lsm>
Begin3
Title:          unRAR -- extract, test and view RAR archives
Version:        2.50
Entered-date:   12MAY1999
Description:    The unRAR utility is a freeware program distributed
with
                source code and developed for extracting, testing and
viewing
                the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver.
Keywords:       archiver, uncompress, unpack, data compression
Author:         Eugene Roshal <roshal at creabel.com>
Maintained-by:  Eugene Roshal <roshal at creabel.com>
Original-site:  ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/
                163245 rarlnx25.sfx
Primary-site:   ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress/
                52kB unrar-2.50.tar.gz
Platforms:      unRAR and the RAR archiver are known to run on the
                following platforms: DOS, OS/2, Win32, Unix
Copying-policy: Copyrighted but freely distributable.
End


hope this helps
./aal