Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you. Your system will be shut down now." Ah... autorun.inf and exit_windows_ex() are such modern tools autorun.inf is a few windows thing that is simple and even works. just remember to strip this first 512 bytes from iso file, as 512 bytes will be takes by tar header before iso file.

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:59:39 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > you may create small .iso image that consist of some stupid images, readme > or autorun configured to format c: ;), then strip first 512 bytes of it > with > > dd if=winiso.iso bs=512 skip=1 of=tmp;mv tmp winiso.iso > > THEN >

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But say that I yanked the photos and used just plain text: 8-bit chars perhaps, and created my own CDROM version. --I *wouldn't* waste my time duplicating this collection, but say that I did. Could this be done in plain HTML and not require an ISO disc? you may u

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To get such content from a DVD, you would just % tar xf /dev/dvd But I think this is only possible with UNIX (BSD, Linux, Solaris). "Windows" cannot handle this, of course. you may create small .iso image that consist of some stupid images, readme or autorun configured to format c: ;)

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:16:26 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > But say that I yanked the photos and used just plain text: 8-bit chars > perhaps, and created my own CDROM version. --I *wouldn't* waste my time > duplicating this collection, but say that I did. Could this be done in >

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-15 Thread Gary Kline
This is my last post about the collection of comparative philosophy, literature, religion, an anthropology. The|One reason the disc was in ISO format is its jpegs or gigs embedded. And possibly because it was in html. But say that I yanked the photos and used

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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? don't cat. just unrar x unrar handles split archives ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-15 Thread 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 wrote: > >guys, > >last friday i found a public domain "DVD-R

questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-15 Thread Gary Kline
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