On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:23:16 -0600, Herb Thymebaum
<Herb@GardinersGrove.com> wrote:
>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:
>>>
>>>>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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No problem Herb. It's easy to forget the details of procedures that
we've been using for years.
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