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