These little things...

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:26 +0200, Josué Alcalde González wrote:
> It has worked for me since hoary, at least (I can't remember warty).

Hu ? I have been unlucky then...

> It needs unrar or unrar-non-free to work, of course, because file-roller
> is only a front-end.

Well, sure.
My point was that until today, at least on my machine, file-roller
never managed to pick-up any back-end I installed, be it unrar-nonfree
or unrar.

> I think it can't compress or uncompress anything by his own.

Sure.

Anyway, I rarely get to deal with RAR files in practise, no it never
bothered me that much.
I wonder why this format is still around. With broadband and cheap large
disks, inventing a new compression format just to compress maybe little
bit more, is hardly worth the trouble IMHO. 
Generally speaking, I can't see the point of so many file formats in
general, be it for audio, video, pictures, file archives, what have
you.... I ma sure 90% of them are redundant :-/
It just turns life to hell for no reason :o((((((((((((((((

Oh, I feel I am starting to digress again, must fight this bad habit...

--
Vince