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RAR is a compression program offering an original algorithm. This new way to compress files provides greater efficiency, and makes smaller archives -- especially on multimedia files, and archives with many files. RAR also offers self-extracting capabilities as well as disk-spanning (or multi-volumes). RAR is the official RAR archive utility for Mac OS X (offered as a command line utility), especially useful while reading all those alt.binaries newsgroups.
To use the RAR command line application, place the files in any folder on your hard drive, and call the utility by typing
To use the RAR command line application, place the files in any folder on your hard drive, and call the utility by typing
What's New
Version 4.0.1b1:
Bugs fixed:
- "Repair" command failed to properly reconstruct structure of RAR archives, which contained at least one file with packed size exceeding 4 GB. This bug did not affect the recovery record based repair. It happened only if recovery record was not found and RAR performed reconstruction of archive structure;
- RAR could crash when creating a new archive with -agNNNN switch if archive number in generated name was very large, like a thousand or more.
Version 4.0.1b1:
Bugs fixed:
- "Repair" command failed to properly reconstruct structure of RAR archives, which contained at least one file with packed size exceeding 4 GB. This bug did not affect the recovery record based repair. It happened only if recovery record was not found and RAR performed reconstruction of archive structure;
- RAR could crash when creating a new archive with -agNNNN more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
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| Downloads:86,176 |
| Version Downloads:8,900 |
| Type:Utilities : Compression |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:10 May 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $29.00 |
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RAR is a compression program offering an original algorithm. This new way to compress files provides greater efficiency, and makes smaller archives -- especially on multimedia files, and archives with many files. RAR also offers self-extracting capabilities as well as disk-spanning (or multi-volumes). RAR is the official RAR archive utility for Mac OS X (offered as a command line utility), especially useful while reading all those alt.binaries newsgroups.
To use the RAR command line application, place the files in any folder on your hard drive, and call the utility by typing in the full path to the application (e.g., to run from the current directory, type "./rar" or "./unrar" followed by the appropriate parameters). Typing the application name (rar or unrar) without any parameters will produce a helpful guide to each program's usage.
To use the RAR command line application, place the files in any folder on your hard drive, and call the utility by typing in the full path to the application (e.g., to run from the current directory, type "./rar" or "./unrar" followed by the appropriate parameters). Typing the application name (rar or unrar) without any parameters will produce a helpful guide to each program's usage.
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Gn-0000 reviewed on 22 Jul 2011
It takes 5 hours to complete the job of compressing 50GB iso files into multi-segmented far files!
it actually does not stick to our era!
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Antoinesynopsis reviewed on 10 May 2011
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Unrar is RAR, in that, it's the same exact program, from the same exact developer, using the same exact algorithm, except it does not have the functionality of actually making rar files, just decompressing them. And that's why it's free. It gives the entire public the ability to decompress proprietary rar files at no added charge (exact same deal with Stuffit).
That's why both spit out the same CP notice ("unrar -h", "rar -h"): Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Alexander Roshal
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If they want to charge MAC users the same money as Windows users they should give MAC users the same product, not some outdated basic version over and over again.
Lets face it, WinRAR / RAR is not exactly a top-end piece of software with major complexities in developing and supplying a GUI front-end for MAC users, it seems the developers are plain lazy and cannot be bothered to give their users / customers what they want.
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http://stuffforlife.blogspot.com/2009/03/data-compression-in-mac-os-x-how-to.html
Hope this is useful.
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It's 2008 , CLI based tools is not only wrong it's and insult to every Mac user.
Like most Mac users we left the Windows side to get away from the stupid command line garbage because the Mac OS was using a GUI front end for everything instead, saved time and increased productivity.
Terminal junkies need a reality check , you want CLI , then buy a UNIX or PC box. I don't want CLI period.
30 bucks for an inconvienent method , you couldn't me double that to even waste a single keystroke to use it!
Ha ha ha
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the RAR compression is supposed to be pretty much state of the art/ tighter than other archive compression schemes. So there is some value in itself.
But I agree that it seems Nuts for Mac users to have to pay the same $29 that a Windows user pays who gets both Command line and a nice GUI window interface (think similar to winzip).
Seems to me that Mac users should either pay less for getting Command line only, or should be getting the same bundle of CLI plus GUI.
As it is now, you still have to buy another package which then calls the RAR CLI, if you want to get it all done from the Mac GUI (which would be my preference).
Would be nice if the RAR folks, or one of our clever Mac wizard developers, could put together a Friendly user interface with RAR compression and at a total packaged reasonable price.
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7-zip offers very competitive compression in comparison with RAR and is entirely free. If you want a nice, full-featured compression program for OS X you can get BetterZip (not free), which can compress to a variety of formats including 7-zip and RAR (RAR licence must be purchased separately).
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You better of buying BetterZip which altough by default can't create a RAR archive (have to buy a RAR license), can do a lot more and priced less
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Macports, Porticus and unrar obtained this way are all free.
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xypher reviewed on 30 May 2008
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12598
Simply place the Rar and Unrar files into the resources folder.
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Etnier reviewed on 18 Jun 2007
Installation instructions are not included in the package: you have to be on this page of comments to learn how to 'install'.
"(give root:wheel ownership via 'sudo chown root:wheel ')":This is incomprehensible to me.
"copy 'rar' and 'unrar' to '/usr/bin',
copy 'default.sfx' to '/usr/lib/' and
copy 'rarfiles.lst' to '/etc/'."
A bit more easy to understand, but not for most Macintosh users. There are comments here from users who can't locate their usr/bin and similar files, not surprising given that those folders are invisible.
IMHO any Mac developer who releases general-purpose software in such an arcane bundle of bits should be ashamed of themselves. Isn't this what an INSTALLER is for?????
I guess these guys "own" the .rar format and so we're stuck with this, but it's just not fair.
when i click on my user, i cant find 'bin' anywhere.
sorry im a mac noob.
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As a matter of fact, 3-4 minutes if you are familiar with how to do it and 15 minutes tops if it's your first time..
I've done it myself to hand out to non-techie friends..
On the other hand, I'm rather grateful they do a Mac build at all and that the winrar key I bought ~8 years ago still works when i install it in /etc for this version.
That is truly a liberal licensing scheme..
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Otherwise, go somewhere else and pick a front-end and mac-like such as the ones mentioned around (I think)...
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I still remember the days when "mac-like" was equivalent to be unable to watch divx or hear mp3...
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Besides it is pathetic (a .pkg can do same thing), they are giving very wrong instructions.
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Try http://www.zipeg.com/mac.index.html
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Werty rated on 17 Jan 2012