On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:30:05 -0600, Herb Thymebaum
<Herb@GardinersGrove.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 14:08:00 -0500, Tunja Varnum <tv@tv.tv> wrote:
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>>I'm a little alarmed- I downloaded the RARs, the par file says they're
>>OK, but WinRAR doesn't like them, says they're incompatible or
>>damaged.
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>>Just asaking what operating system and WinRAR version was used.
>>I'm still using XP and WinRAR 3.5, has been fine until now.
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>Not the poster but...I used 3.71 on Win 7 and had no problem
>extracting the files. I believe RAR files are backwards compatible, so
>files created with a newer WinRAR ought to extract with earlier
>versions.
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>Herb Thymebaum
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I did a liitle searching and found that there is a newer format (RAR5)
with WinRAR 5, they call the older format RAR4. They say they are not
backward compatible. I managed to find WinRAR 5.11 in one of the
newsgroups and was able to extract the files with that.
That doesn't explain how 3.71 worked for you though,
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