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how can i open a .RAR file?, I"m on a MAC!?!, CRIMENY!

how can i open a .RAR file?, I"m on a MAC!?!, CRIMENY!

2008-11-25 by tomdcarden

hey all,
just spent $69 on a PowerFX product only to download a !@#$@!!! .rar file that i cannot open!
i wanted to use it today but i guess not?,

i'm on a MAC, how do i open this?

thanks much,

Tom

Re: [L-OT] how can i open a .RAR file?, I"m on a MAC!?!, CRIMENY!

2008-11-25 by Otto Gygax

> hey all,
> just spent $69 on a PowerFX product only to download a !@#$@!!! .rar file
> that i cannot open!
> i wanted to use it today but i guess not?,
>
> i'm on a MAC, how do i open this?
>
> thanks much,
>
> Tom
>
>

Tom, try this: http://rarexpander.sourceforge.net/

-otto

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Audio, Recording, Network Engineering / Percussion
GxM Consulting
Philomath, Oregon, US

Re: [L-OT] how can i open a .RAR file?, I"m on a MAC!?!, CRIMENY!

2008-11-26 by tomdcarden

Thank you Otto, appreciate it. i got it now,

I'd had an .rar file once before and never could get it to open,  just assumed it was a 
windows only format. download the new stuff-it and it opened it this time. 



--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, "Otto Gygax" <otto@...> wrote:
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> 
> > hey all,
> > just spent $69 on a PowerFX product only to download a !@#$@!!! .rar file
> > that i cannot open!
> > i wanted to use it today but i guess not?,
> >
> > i'm on a MAC, how do i open this?
> >
> > thanks much,
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> 
> Tom, try this: http://rarexpander.sourceforge.net/
> 
> -otto
> 
> =======================================
> Audio, Recording, Network Engineering / Percussion
> GxM Consulting
> Philomath, Oregon, US
>

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