From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 20:16:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F2D1065673 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:16:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDAF8FC1B for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:16:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so2936737wfg.7 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:16:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=AblQdnFBVJGS/ewxU/GflH4dx9S82cUXzbJ2bVjaK7A=; b=WRgE6bSp39PIq6sAoLFtHYEyeMrlDZhiddcCzem3pcTF2pUFUhemZBKImrryM3cgJv wiS6ER1jXeTpG+MG644udPQEl0XsJZEQhxh5Znt+d3L4ftttJ/bOTwRJwig+QZN7NJV8 pQqXpeWXBuM9GrTFeMwjpytDCl3CQ7iCKU9Hg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ktZiYpEVb7r3nSTZcyb1tPXx3zqXsmOKRgP47gySa0ITORll7woIr8LdBL6WB4RiK0 Aw1A4cdyuuoxRs0lgyxVZxOn0yCBVd9hQEsGZybog+is7kegg0aORksJDi3nSmBTYdNn feiH0nqL7PSPO08KEKZDlvUEPzhXBwAIQ2SGY= Received: by 10.143.3.7 with SMTP id f7mr2936328wfi.92.1229372212458; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:16:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.132.16 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:16:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:16:52 -0500 From: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" To: "Gary Kline" In-Reply-To: <20081215200949.GA48169@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081215200949.GA48169@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:16:53 -0000 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-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 using bit-torrent, but that was taking > a long LONG time and stalled, so next time is a question about this > stuff. note that the torrent file was also in *rar format, so i'm back to > the original quandry... > > if anybody knows what an rar file is, would you please hit me up with > a clue or two? > > tia, > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > The 2.12a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >