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Re: [L-OT] New file uploaded to logic-ot

2002-09-21 by Murray McDowall

At 11:27 AM 9/20/02 -0400, you wrote:

>> MacRAR solves that little problem.
>
>Used to use that - but it seems stuck at ver 2.5 something - I believe 
>it is no longer supported.

That's bad news. Someone else might step into the breech with updated Mac
support perhaps .

>In any case it had trouble running under os later than 9.0 and does not 
>at all understand the newer rar format (since ver 3) which abandoned 
>the .r01 .r02.....s.xx etc file extension format.

I still use 2.9

>Too bad, rar is a very useful compression scheme, great for mulitmedia. 
>Hope someone ports a full implementation to osx before long.

Yes the compression achieved by WinRAR is usually impressive although there
are more efficient algorithms for audio files.

Regards,
Murray

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