David Kerridge wrote:
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 Seamonkey 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 clicked 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.
You're using some peculiar terminology here, so I'm not sure I
understand you. The WinRAR installer (e.g., winrar-x64-500.exe if you
got the 64-bit version) is a program, so "opening" it in PC/Wintel
parlance means "running" it. When you "run" the installer, you should
get a series of dialogs that walk you through the installation process
-- what directory should I put it in, what file types should I take over
as mine, that sort of thing. But you don't describe anything like that,
so I don't know if that's what you mean by "open."
Once it's installed, "opening" WinRAR (the program, not the installer)
should launch the program and let you open/create .rar files, etc. Is
that what you mean? In that case, File | Open archive from within WinRAR
should let you point to a .rar file on disk and open it. From there, you
should be able to open/view the files contained in the archive, or
extract them and save them as uncompressed normal files. Is that what
you mean?
Please note that opening (launching, running) the WinRAR program is not
the same as running the installer. You run the installer once, but you
don't launch the program the same way. The installer should create a
program group under your Start button (or the Win8 equivalent), and it
should put an icon on your desktop (or the Win8 equivalent). Those are
the places you should go to run the program.
I rebooted and went to seamonkey news groups and tried some .rar
files and nothing more than machine language.
It sounds like SM is treating these as text files and doesn't know how
to interpret them. That's fine, because it shouldn't know, but it should
at least know to call its friend WinRAR for help (assuming, of course,
that WinRAR is installed on your system).
Look under Edit | Preferences | Browser | Helper Applications (I find it
best to maximize the window for readability). As you scroll down the
list, do you see any listings for the file type "WinRAR archive"? On my
system, since "W" is late in the alphabet, they're at the bottom of the
list. If so, what are the preferences for these file types?
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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