> On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 09:40:55PM +0330, Legolas > Woodland wrote: > > Hi > > Thank you for reading my post > > Can some one let me know how I can open a RAR file > in solaris? > > RAR is a compression format in windows and all > windows users will need it > > when they come to open solaris. > > The Gnome Archive Manager (File Roller 2.20.0) has > some RAR support. > > It at least knows how to open and extract files from > a RAR archive. > I'm not sure the decryption stuff works but let us > know if you try it. > > /usr/bin/file-roller <rar file> > hould do it. > > This is on snv_75.
For most if not all archive formats it "supports", file-roller uses external commands. Thus, it will only be able to extract rar archives if unrar can be found via $PATH. It will also only be able to modify or create rar archives if the "rar" command is similarly available (which AFAIK it won't be unless rarlab.com chooses to make it available for Solaris; their attitude seems to me to be that anyone can use the unrar code to extract or list archives, but that creating or updating them is proprietary). If someone hasn't already done something to get the ball rolling, it might be good if unrar were added to OpenSolaris. While I'm not keen on proprietary formats, being able to extract just about anything is arguably not a bad idea. (IMO, the only thing that makes sense to make proprietary (if anything does) in the way of compression schemes or codecs is the encoding side of a video codec, since coming up with one that improves on compression vs quality (vs realtime performance) of existing ones would probably not be easy. Even that may turn out to be pretty silly, as bandwidth sufficient to deal with less than best possible video compression becomes commonplace. Now maybe if and when true 3D becomes possible (not just two eye views), there will still be enough data at high resolutions to challenge available bandwidth. But my bet is on bandwidth capable of supporting full five-sense (plus) VR (i.e. something indistinguishable from reality) being available long before the means of imparting the illusion; and who would really want to deal with a data feed like that directly into their brain, such that they couldn't ever be sure what was real and what was illusion?) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
