Re: Zip list

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Zip list
Date	2023-02-19 12:42 +0100
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On 2023-02-19 12:10, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 18/02/2023 16:39, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2023-02-18 14:15, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 18/02/2023 11:43, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>> On 2023-02-18 11:12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>> On 17/02/2023 19:32, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>>>> I was becoming so tired of the proliferation of file archiving
>>>>>> formats (ARC, ZOO, ARJ, etc.) that I was relieved to see the
>>>>>> world finally settle on ZIP as a standard archiving format.
>>>>>> (Uh-oh, here comes 7Zip...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And this is all separate from the Unix world, which had
>>>>>> tar, cpio, gzip...
>>>>>
>>>>> RAR was my pet hate...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why? :-?  :-o
>>>>
>>> Could never find an unpacking program that ran on Unix.
>>
>> :-O
>>
>>
>> unrar.
>>
>> Unix, or Linux?
>>
> Unix.
> I cant remember when Linux first appeared on the desktops - I believe 
> that Mr Kettlewell was among the first in our company to espouse it, but 
> it was preceded by a lot of SCO Unix and SUNoS .

I suppose that unrar can be compiled in Unix, the source is available.


unrar for unix is mentioned here, for instance:

<https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/open-rar-file-or-extract-rar-files-under-linux-or-unix/>

+++··················
If you are using FreeBSD Unix, use the pkg command:
# pkg install unrar

If you are using OpenBSD Unix, use the pkg_add command:
# pkg_add -v unrar

If you are using macOS Unix and Homebrew, use the brew command. First, 
install Homebrew on macOS and then type the following brew command:
$ brew install unrar
··················++-


> 
> Curiously the advent of wide area networking and ultimately the Internet 
> propelled both the RAR format and Linux into popularity. It is hard to 
> see how co-operative development of Linux would have taken place without 
> the Internet and the ability to download and upload files globally, and 
> the need for RAR was IIRC driven by the first 'torrents' of pirated 
> software...
> 
> Anyway, for a long time it remained a DOS/WIN only program.

Certainly Linux development came with Internet. That is known history.

RAR was very popular in the DOS world, but it started in 1993, so the 
same era as Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_(file_format)

«RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data 
compression, error correction and file spanning.[3] It was developed in 
1993 by Russian software engineer Eugene Roshal and the software is 
licensed by win.rar GmbH.[3] The name RAR stands for Roshal Archive.»


RAR had good features before internet. It could easily create archives 
spanning several floppies, it had forward error recovery... It had some 
sort of support for script running with decompress, useful for 
installation of programs.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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