DOS ain't dead

Hi, does anyone know working unrar unpacker for DOS ? I tried WinRAR for MS-DOS but it reports " out of memory " on EDR-DOS.

EDIT by rr: changed subject from "RAR_FOR_DOSes"

> Hi, does anyone know working unrar unpacker for DOS ?

UNRAR version 3.71 beta 1 available

> I tried WinRAR for MS-DOS but it reports "out of memory" on EDR-DOS.

What the heck is "WinRAR for DOS"? WinRAR implies Windows, of course.

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I think that best solution is 7-zip to unpack RAR archive, but GPL unrar work for me as well, so pack into RAR archive is still commercial software?

EDIT by rr: quoting repaired

> > I tried WinRAR for MS-DOS but it reports "out of memory" on EDR-DOS.
>
> What the heck is "WinRAR for DOS"? WinRAR implies Windows, of course.

What is WinRAR 3.80? of software, there is included rar32.exe which can be launch from DOS command line, but it write "out of memory" is it demonstration soft? or I have to buy license or what?

EDIT by rr: quoting repaired (again!)

> ... so pack into RAR archive is still commercial software?

Yes.

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> > > I tried WinRAR for MS-DOS but it reports "out of memory" on EDR-DOS.
> >
> > What the heck is "WinRAR for DOS"? WinRAR implies Windows, of course.
>
> What is WinRAR 3.80? of software, there is included rar32.exe which can be

That's wrong. Rar32.exe is part of "RAR 3.80 beta 4 for MS DOS", but not "WinRAR 3.80 beta 5".

> launch from DOS command line, but it write "out of memory" is it

How much RAM is in your PC? It might be a problem with the EMX DOS extender used by Rar32.exe. From Jemm's README.TXT:

EMX        option to prevent EMX DOS extender from quickly terminating with
           message "out of memory (RM)" on machines with large amounts
           of RAM (> 256 MB). This is optionally because it makes Jemm
           behave not fully VCPI compliant, but shouldn't hurt usually.

> demonstration soft? or I have to buy license or what?

All software for creating RAR archives is commercial sofware, also offered as trial version for evaluation. Why not just read the manufacturer's home page?

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> How much RAM is in your PC? It might be a problem with the EMX DOS
> extender used by Rar32.exe. From Jemm's README.TXT:
>
> EMX        option to prevent EMX DOS extender from quickly
> terminating with
> message "out of memory (RM)" on machines with large amounts
> of RAM (> 256 MB). This is optionally because it makes Jemm
> behave not fully VCPI compliant, but shouldn't hurt
> usually.

yes I use jemm, there is the problem, I should read manual for jemm, I have 768 Mbyte RAM instaled

>From Jemm's README.TXT:
>
> EMX        option to prevent EMX DOS extender from quickly
> terminating with
> message "out of memory (RM)" on machines with large amounts
> of RAM (> 256 MB). This is optionally because it makes Jemm
> behave not fully VCPI compliant, but shouldn't hurt
> usually.

Many thanks Option EMX with jemmex was successful, rar32.exe works

> rar32.exe works

Except you have a very strong reason for preferring RAR I would recommend 7-ZIP instead.

RAR is always co$ty, UNRAR free (but no RAR reconstruction).

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> > rar32.exe works
>
> Except you have a very strong reason for preferring RAR I would
> recommend 7-ZIP instead.
>
> RAR is always co$ty, UNRAR free (but no RAR reconstruction).

Agreed, but it would still be interesting to hear about unique features that RAR has (Stefan??).

> UNRAR version 3.71 beta 1 available

Seems that 3.80 got released ... What's new: ???

> What the heck is "WinRAR for DOS"? WinRAR implies Windows, of course.

But I can't find a version history for Non-Win-UNRAR

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> > UNRAR version 3.71 beta 1 available
>
> Seems that 3.80 got released ... What's new: ???

From rarx380.exe/rar/whatsnew.txt: 3. RAR displays the total progress bar when unpacking a multivolume archive if all volumes are present in the same folder.

> > What the heck is "WinRAR for DOS"? WinRAR implies Windows, of course.
>
> But I can't find a version history for Non-Win-UNRAR

There's none, because UnRAR is derived from RAR source code automatically.

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UNRAR 3.93 was apparently made available as source on 15 March 2010. A quick list of changes is available, but I only see -r- (no recursion) and -ai (ignore attributes) as significant. (rr, feel free to compile for us ... else I can provide one, if needed. I did try, it builds okay with G++ 4.2.3, at least.)

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> UNRAR 3.93 was apparently made available as source on 15 March 2010.

Basically, it's hard to tell whats new with all the "WinRAR"-oriented crud. But a download of (EMX) RAR32 shareware has whatsnew.txt, so here's a brief list of changes since 3.80:


                RAR - What's new in the latest version


   Version 3.93

   1. Bugs fixed:

      a) in RAR 3.92 -xd:\path\dir switch could also exclude directories,
         which path does not match the path specified in the switch
         and only the directory name is the same as specified;
     
      b) switches -y -or did not work correctly together. Switch -or was
         ignored in presence of -y.

   
   Version 3.92

   1. In RAR 3.91 -x<mask> switch could also exclude directories
      from archiving even if mask contained wilcard characters and did not
      contain a path. For example, -x*. excluded all those directories,
      which do not have the extension in the name. Now -x switch uses
      RAR 3.80 approach for masks without path, excluding directories
      only if mask does not contain wildcards and matches the directory
      name exactly

   2. If file matched two different masks in RarFiles.lst,
      RAR could select the last match. Normally, if neither of masks
      is a subset of another, the first match must be chosen.


   Version 3.91

   1. Bugs fixed:

      a) hexadecimal search in "ih" command failed to find matches
         if first byte in search string was greater than 127.


   Version 3.90

   1. New command line switch -r- disables recursion completely.
      So 'rar a -r- arc dirname' command will add only the empty
      dirname folder and ignore its contents. By default, if dirname
      does not include wildcards, RAR adds its contents even if
      -r switch is not specified.

   2. If used when extracting, the new command line switch -ai
      forces RAR to ignore file attributes. When using this switch,
      extracted files will always have attributes assigned by
      operating system to a newly created file by default.

   3. If output file name is not specified in "cw" command,
      RAR will send comment data to stdout.

   4. When compressing stdin data with -si[name] switch, RAR sets
      modification time of archived entry to current system time.
      Previous RAR versions did not fill this field, resulting in
      meaningless modification time for stdin.


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I prefer to use command line RAR.EXE from WinRAR package. It works via HX-DOS and except bug with >256MB RAM works better the long file names support. In DOS/EMX version it doesn't work always properly with DOSLFN (sometimes truncates long file names) but in Win-console/HX it works without any problems.

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> UNRAR 3.93 was apparently made available as source on 15 March 2010. A
> quick list of changes is
> available, but I only see -r- (no recursion) and -ai (ignore attributes)
> as significant. (rr, feel free to compile for us ... else I can
> provide one, if needed. I did try, it builds okay with G++ 4.2.3, at
> least.)

Maybe. Maybe not. I feel uncomfortable with the build process I introduced once. And I'm no (Un)RAR user.

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> > UNRAR 3.93 was apparently made available as source on 15 March 2010.
> > (rr, feel free to compile for us ... else I can
> > provide one, if needed.)
>
> Maybe. Maybe not. I feel uncomfortable with the build process I introduced
> once. And I'm no (Un)RAR user.

NDN uses it, and he frequents here sometimes.

http://rapidshare.com/files/375944931/unrar393.zip.html
MD5: 6B73A86275128F0DA305AC27BAB279E8

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