rar archives on mac's

[jeex]

a friend of mine has a mac, and he's created a dvd project with it.. vobs, ifos, & bups. he doesnt have a dvd burner on his computer, so he wants to transfer the contents over to mine on cd-rw's..

i went to rarsoft.com and saw there was a command line version of winrar for macs.. will the mac version let you create spanning archives that can be extracted on a PC?

thanks for any help anyone can provide.

[jeex]

c'mooon..

all you mac junkies are always talking shit about how good the mac is..

what it cant create a spanning archive or rar files that will work on the pc?

[Rookie64]

I'm the wrong person to offer any advice on Macs (don't own one nor ever touched one) but of the very little I know, I think either of these may be of some help -


http://www.stuffit.com/win/index.html


http://www.files.de/software/Programm_File_Splitter_Deluxe_4629.html

[geek rock]

i use a program called "unrarx" to unpack rar files. i can't remember whether it can compress them either, and i'm leaving for work in about 30 seconds, so search google for it or something?

[galactica]

unrarx will only unrar as the name implies.

im sure there is a raring app for OSX just never looked myself.

if i was to package and split an archive i would just use stuffit expander delux

you can DropTar DropStuff or DropZip any folder you want and then Segment the resulting file.

for mac to pc transfer i would suggest the dropzip and then segment because your alls winzip or whatever would then process the segments into a large .zip which you can then unzip.

is that what you were looking for jeex??

the Rar app on rarsoft is only in beta stages. If your a pro at terminal its no problem

these are the options and its quite simple if you know how to use the terminal.

<Commands>
  a             Add files to archive
  c             Add archive comment
  cf            Add files comment
  cw            Write archive comment to file
  d             Delete files from archive
  e             Extract files to current directory
  f             Freshen files in archive
  i[par]=<str>  Find string in archives
  k             Lock archive
  l[t,b]        List archive [technical, bare]
  m[f]          Move to archive [files only]
  p             Print file to stdout
  r             Repair archive
  rc            Reconstruct missing volumes
  rn            Rename archived files
  rr[N]         Add data recovery record
  rv[N]         Create recovery volumes
  s[name|-]     Convert archive to or from SFX
  t             Test archive files
  u             Update files in archive
  v[t,b]        Verbosely list archive [technical,bare]
  x             Extract files with full path

<Switches>
  -             Stop switches scanning
  ad            Append archive name to destination path
  ag[format]    Generate archive name using the current date
  ap<path>      Set path inside archive
  as            Synchronize archive contents
  av            Put authenticity verification (registered versions only)
  av-           Disable authenticity verification check
  c-            Disable comments show
  cfg-          Disable read configuration
  cl            Convert names to lower case
  cu            Convert names to upper case
  df            Delete files after archiving
  dh            Open shared files
  ds            Disable name sort for solid archive
  e<attr>       Set file exclude attributes
  ed            Do not add empty directories
  en            Do not put 'end of archive' block
  ep            Exclude paths from names
  ep1           Exclude base directory from names
  ep2           Expand paths to full
  f             Freshen files
  hp[password]  Encrypt both file data and headers
  idp           Disable percentage display
  ierr          Send all messages to stderr
  ilog[name]    Log errors to file (registered versions only)
  inul          Disable all messages
  isnd          Enable sound
  k             Lock archive
  kb            Keep broken extracted files
  m<0..5>       Set compression level (0-store...3-default...5-maximal)
  mc<par>       Set advanced compression parameters
  md<size>      Dictionary size in KB (64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 or A-G)
  ms[ext;ext]   Specify file types to store
  o+            Overwrite existing files
  o-            Do not overwrite existing files
  ol            Save symbolic links as the link instead of the file
  ow            Save or restore file owner and group
  p[password]   Set password
  p-            Do not query password
  r             Recurse subdirectories
  r0            Recurse subdirectories for wildcard names only
  ri

[:<S>]   Set priority (0-default,1-min..15-max) and sleep time in ms
  rr[N]         Add data recovery record
  rv[N]         Create recovery volumes
  s[<N>,v[-],e] Create solid archive
  s-            Disable solid archiving
  sfx[name]     Create SFX archive
  si[name]      Read data from standard input (stdin)
  t             Test files after archiving
  ta<date>      Process files modified after <date> in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
  tb<date>      Process files modified before <date> in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
  tk            Keep original archive time
  tl            Set archive time to latest file
  tn<time>      Process files newer than <time>
  to<time>      Process files older than <time>
  ts<m,c,a>[N]  Save or restore file time (modification, creation, access)
  u             Update files
  v             Create volumes with size autodetection or list all volumes
  v<size>[k,b]  Create volumes with size=<size>*1000 [*1024, *1]
  ver[n]        File version control
  vn            Use the old style volume naming scheme
  vp            Pause before each volume
  w<path>       Assign work directory
  x<file>       Exclude specified file
  x@            Read file names to exclude from stdin
  x@<list>      Exclude files in specified list file
  y             Assume Yes on all queries
  z<file>       Read archive comment from file