Geoffrey Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> IIRC, It is non-free, unfortunately.

Yes. Even unrar was removed from contrib because of the licensing
issue.

> We all know that RAR is good but because of licensing issues we cannot do 
> that.

Well RAR is nice, but as ARJ or even bzip2, the compression
algorithm doesn't allow seeking in the compressed stream
(opposedly to zlib), so extracting a single file at a random
position is very slow, and if there is corruption at a place of
the stream, the whole rest of data is lost.


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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

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