[Nottingham] dealing with rar files in Linux

[Robert Hart]

Are you sure the file is kosher, and that the filesystem you are trying
to write to is not full/readonly?

what does 
file filename.rar 
say it is? 

Where did the rar file come from? could you not download a less
proprietary version?


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:35 +0200, Matt Bunter wrote:
> Martin Garton wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:13 +0200, Matt Bunter wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>unrar filename.rar
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >ISTR the syntax is:
> >
> >unrar x filename.rar
> >
> >Does that work?
> >
> >  
> >
> I tried both unrar -x filename.rar and just unrar x filename.rar
> 
> The -x gives the same error message as plain old unrar (from the man 
> page I gather its the default behaviour).
> 
> unrar x filename gives :
> 
> unrar: invalid archive 'x': Bad address
> Usage: unrar [OPTION...] ARCHIVE [FILE...] [DESTINATION]
> Try `unrar --help' or `unrar --usage' for more information.
> 
> I've tried -f (force) as well with no luck.
> 
> Matt
> 
> P.S. I also tried e and -e and got :
> 
> unrar: invalid archive 'e': Bad address
> Usage: unrar [OPTION...] ARCHIVE [FILE...] [DESTINATION]
> Try `unrar --help' or `unrar --usage' for more information.
> 
> and
> 
> unrar: invalid option -- e
> Try `unrar --help' or `unrar --usage' for more information.
> 
> 
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Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham


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