questions about some archive files, type *.rar

[Tsu-Fan Cheng]

just use "unrar" under archivers in ports collection. dont have to cat
all the rar files together, "unrar" can un-compress it in sequence and
generate the original files.

TFC

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
>
>        guys,
>
>        last friday i found a public domain "DVD-ROM" of books available
>        for free d/l.  turns out there were 13 huge files in rar files.
>        I have all.  can these be catted together and the "unrar"d to form
>        the original?
>
>        Oh:  there was another version using bit-torrent, but that was taking
>        a long LONG time and stalled, so next time is a question about this
>        stuff.  note that the torrent file was also in *rar format, so i'm back to
>        the original quandry...
>
>        if anybody knows what an rar file is, would you please hit me up with
>        a clue or two?
>
>        tia,
>
>        gary
>
>
>
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