Wong Kwok-hon: >> How about to compress to RAR ? Which software can ? Kevin Kofler: > Don't. > 1. By using RAR, you help spreading a proprietary format which cannot > be opened with Free Software. (All the decompressors I've seen are > derived from the original non-Free unrar.) > 2. You have to use a proprietary program to compress, too. > 3. You even have to pay to use said compressor legally. > ...[snip]... I agree, the original poster has already experienced annoyances at having to do something to unpack yet another archive format, why subject yet another person to the same thing? The first time I had to deal with a RAR file on Windows, it was a right pain. It was even worse when I had to deal with one on Linux, the first time around. RAR's supposed to have some good features, particularly to do with sending large files as a split set of archives, but I doubt that it's going to be significantly better at it than other schemes. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
