On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:44:24 -0500, Tunja Varnum <tv@tv.tv> wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:30:05 -0600, Herb Thymebaum
><Herb@GardinersGrove.com> wrote:
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>>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.
>>>
>>>Just asaking what operating system and WinRAR version was used.
>>>I'm still using XP and WinRAR 3.5, has been fine until now.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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,
My apologies on the 3.71. I've been using it for years and forgot that
I just upgraded to Agent 8 last week. Agent 8 has a built in QuickPar
and unRAR feature so no third party apps are needed and apparently the
RAR service contains the newer RAR5 codec. (Nice to find the final
file on the hard drive w/o the need to do a manual extration.)
I'd been using 3.71 until a few days ago, and forgot that I'm no
longer needing it to unRAR Usenet downloads . Insofar as it also
automatically deletes the RAR's after the automatic extraction, I
don't have those files handy anymore, but I'll take it that you're
correct about the non-backward compatibility with older versions.
I gather newer versions are forward compatible with older codecs, so I
probably won't have an immediate need to upgrade WinRAR, but I guess
I'll want to do it at some time in the future.
Sorry for the bogus reply.
Herb Thymebaum
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