On Thursday 14 February 2002 14:18, Geoffrey Lee wrote: | > | > Reason why you may want to use rar, instead of zip: | > zip can't cut archive into multiple pcs, say, of 1.5MB | > You may need to send files as an attachment by mail, and as many mail | > servers reject all mails with attachements >2MB, tool like rar is | > absolutely necessary to have! | | IIRC, It is non-free, unfortunately. | | We all know that RAR is good but because of licensing issues we cannot do | that. |
ahh, I forgot to take a look at its license... sorry. Obviously, Windows users treat all shareware softtware as *free* - but of course you can't include most of it inlo LM. [vadim@VPlessky windows]$ rar RAR 2.90 Copyright (c) 1993-2001 Eugene Roshal 7 Sep 2001 Shareware version Type RAR -? for help BTW: does it mean that PLD Linux is not so distinctive with licensing issues? | Anyway, there are other ways to split files up -- but it does result in a | bit of inconvenience if you don't know how to join them back up with a | bit of shell scripting. | | - G. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
