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Re:Why would ANYONE use RAR?

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 05, 2007 10:27 PM
You don't need to cat RARs back together, rar will automatically process all parts. E.g. rar x some_file.rar, will process some_file.r01, r02... rnn. You don't even have to specify the first file, any file from the archive will generate a full extraction.

The real reason people started using RAR is down to USENET binaries having to be posted in multiple parts.

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