On Tuesday 19 February 2002 22:22, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: | Geoffrey Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > IIRC, It is non-free, unfortunately. | | Yes. Even unrar was removed from contrib because of the licensing | issue.
Is there someone on Cooker list who is located in California, preferably Freemont? I guess I was meeting RAR author some time ago (he was working in Moscow) when visiting friends' office doing some UNIX development. Unfortunatly, most of them immigrated to US. I know company where some of them working - but lost e-mail address. I think it's posible to conact through those friends author and ask for special licance for Mandrake. May be, RAR author just not aware that current shareware license has problems with Linux world?.. | | > 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. well, my usage of RAR was targeted at one specifi application - cut 10MB presentation by 2MB pieces, and send them by mail to Windows user. That Windows user doesn't have tar, but has rar. as about arj: compression with it is not so good as with rar, but it does its job (cuts files into smaller pieces, .arj, .a01, .a02, etc) But so far: [vadim@VPlessky vadim]$ arj bash: arj: command not found any plans to add ARJ to Cooker? :-) -- 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/
