These little things...

[Josué Alcalde González]

El mié, 05-04-2006 a las 20:57 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez escribió:
> Ahhhh...
> 
> Today I received an e-mail with an attachement compressed in the RAR
> format. I thought I would have, again, to unrar it in a terminal, but
> for the sake of it, I tried to right-click on it and select "extract
> here", as I would do for a ZIP or TAR file. In the past this has always
> resulted in File-roller failing, saying that it doesn't support the RAR
> format. But today, go figure, it "just worked" ! 
> I don't know what happened, if it has finally be compiled with RAR
> support, or if it somehow managed to automatically use the "unrar"
> package I installed from Synaptic.
> 
> Anyway, for the first time, it "just worked"... I am loving Dapper a bit
> more every day... and there is still nearly 2 month left to make it even
> better... coooooooool... :o)
It has worked for me since hoary, at least (I can't remember warty).
It needs unrar or unrar-non-free to work, of course, because file-roller
is only a front-end.
I think it can't compress or uncompress anything by his own.
> 
> --
> Vince, every little thing counts...
> 
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