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Antonin
August 15th, 2004, 10:06 PM
I've noticed that some mod files are in the 'rar' format. How do you open them after downloading?

I used the 'search function but could not find anything even slightly helpful.

Thanks in advance for any replies.
brianeyci
August 15th, 2004, 10:08 PM
www.google.com (http://www.google.com)
Fyron
August 15th, 2004, 10:16 PM
They are compressed with the RAR algorithm, which gives much smaller archive files than ZIP does. WinRar (http://www.rarlabs.com) will open them.
Ed Kolis
August 15th, 2004, 10:16 PM
Try winrar:
www.rarlabs.com (http://www.rarlabs.com)

It's shareware; not sure if any *free* programs can read them...
Raging Deadstar
August 15th, 2004, 10:19 PM
Ed Kolis said:
Try winrar:
www.rarlabs.com (http://www.rarlabs.com)

It's shareware; not sure if any *free* programs can read them...



There are "free" programs. It just depends on if your definition of "free" is a ton of spyware being installed on your PC and it being rather unreliable /threads/images/Graemlins/mad.gif

Winrar should be fine for them http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Antonin
August 16th, 2004, 09:55 PM
Raging Deadstar said:

There are "free" programs. It just depends on if your definition of "free" is a ton of spyware being installed on your PC and it being rather unreliable



That's why I'm extremely careful about what I DL and where I DL it from.
Atrocities
August 21st, 2004, 08:35 AM
WinRAR is a great program. Far better than WinZip.
Fyron
August 21st, 2004, 04:09 PM
Atrocities said:
WinRAR is a great program. Far better than WinZip.

95% of archiving programs are far better than WinZip. WinZip is just an extremely basic program, lacking any advanced features, as well as support for a lot of compression algorithms. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Baron Munchausen
August 21st, 2004, 09:25 PM
Oh yes, there are definitely free programs -- genuine 'free' not fake 'free' with the cost extracted in ad-hassles -- that handle .RAR files. Quickzip for example. I haven't bothered to compress any .RAR files with it so I don't know how it compares to the original in compression performance but it does extract them, and many other formats also.

www.quickzip.org (http://www.quickzip.org)