Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
David Kerridge wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
.rar is a compression format like .zip, and again you have several
options. My favorite is WinRAR, which works fine in a Windows
environment. You get nagged every time you launch it that it's
technically not freeware and wouldn't you like to buy it, but you
can dismiss the nag and run it forever without paying. You don't
have to integrate it into SM, just list it as a helper app that
handles .rar, .zip, etc. <http://www.win-rar.com/start.html>
I am using Win-8 with Seamonkey 2.22 as Browser - email - News Group,
access.
I downloaded (win-rar.com) saved on my "C:" drive in the same
directory as Seamonkey, I opened it, shut down the computer,
restarted it, went into News groups and tried it,0 but it didn't
work. How do I go about getting (win-rar) to work?? Dave.
Don't know Win8, but the download file from win-rar.com is an installer,
so it has to be run, not just dropped into your SM directory. You should
probably leave it in your Downloads directory so you can find it later
if you need to.
Once you've run the installer, do two tests:
1) From a Windows Explorer directory, try to open a .rar file. If all is
well, Windows should know what to do. If not, it should ask for guidance
and you should tell it that .rar files are opened with WinRAR.
2) Go into SM and try to open a .rar file. It will probably ask you how
to handle it; in that case tell it: Use WinRAR, or Always Ask, or Save
File, as you please.
I go into newsgroups with Sesmonkey and try to open .rar files and
nothing happens other than what I have been getting, just a bunch of
machine language. When I downloaded win-rar, I saved it to a windows
explorer directory, seamonkey is also located in the very same directory
as win-rar. After downloading win-rar, I double cliked the win-rar Icon
whiched opened it. Next, like many programs required me to power down
after opening, so I did that just in case. I rebooted and went to
seamonkey news groups and tried some .rar files and nothing more than
machine language. Dave.
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