-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Cornette wrote: > David Boles wrote: > > I had to deal with a RAR file for a BIOS upgrade for some board > recently. Windows XP does not have a utility in its fold to deal with > the extraction of the archive. The file ended in .rar though. I found an > extraction program to unrar the file. > I have not encountered a self-extracting rar file fortunately yet. The > point that it was a windows executable with the .exe was right. He would > not have had to chase down a RAR extraction program. > I still think inclusion of XP for a "How Stuff Doesn't Work" would be > ideal and appropriate. > > I did find one for Vista. It sounds like they are describing beagle. > http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/08/vista-rubbish All of these are like the famous 'third party' programs that Linux is famous for here. Windows can play mp3 files 'out of the box' on install. Why? Microsoft paid for the license so that they could include that codec in the OS. Zip archive is kinda' free for home use. Rar archive is pay-for-me period from Russia, I think, unless it changed. If you find a 'free' 'Rar' utility be concerned. *It* might be a 'bug'. ;-) If you deal with Windows archive files a lot try - 7-Zip. It works on just about anything and it is open source. Can't say for Mac, never looked, but there is one for Windows and Linux. The pirated porn movies and music usually come as muti-part .rar files. The virus and stuff hide there. Among other places. I don't want to start a flame-war here... but... about 90% of the world uses Windows of some kind and *all* of us Linux users, total - all distributions, is something like 3.3%. Mac is 3.9%. Do you really think that almost everyone uses Windows because it does *not* work? ;-) OS Platform Statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHT58vAO0wNI1X4QERAiz0AKCOn3oZQ3Vn5CnrLDP0rrOa5G3SPQCgmmDq PDXry0nmHWC6OVvBFqPzZLc= =LUU9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
