Gerard Henry wrote:
>> Note, that p7zip is also able to extract RAR files.
>> .  However, since
>> the RAR format is rather popular and unrar
>>  utility can be found in all
>> major Linux distribution it still makes sense
>>  to have it ported to
>> OpenSolaris (it is not a common knowledge to
>>  use p7zip for extracting
>>        RAR files).
> 
> where have you seen that p7zip is able to extract RAR file? on os2008.11, the 
> man page says nothing, and i'm unable to do it:
> henry at delljm:/tmp$ p7zip -d test.rar 
> /usr/bin/p7zip: test.rar: unknown suffix

try using:

  7z x test.rar

> 
> if p7zip is able to do it, a simple link from p7zip to unrar will be 
> sufficient, before integration?

This would dependent upon the command line arguments etc and how it 
(unrar) is driven by the utilities that expect it.

Ta
pete
> 
> 
> gerard

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