Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:33:28 +0100 > "ccornell - OpenOffice.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rar is a common file compression format (as are zip, arj etc.). >> I don't see the issue with rar over any other compression format. > > Unlike zip, bzip2, gzip, lha and so on, rar is not a freely available file > compression algorithm. "unrar" can be distributed, but the program to create > a > rar file is commercial.
Ah ok. I didn't know that. I work in Linux or Solaris only (and thus use bzip2, gzip, tar etc). I encounter rar files from time to time (I assume usually created by Windows users) but never realized that creating a rar required a commercial license. C. -- Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
