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WINRAR 3.51 Free Sunday July 30th 2006 - Neowin.net
I used to have the open-source file for download on the website, but GeoCities stopped allowing that sort of thing, so this is a decent offer. As you'll read in the comments of this article, a lot of people prefer the open-source version, which I'm sure you can still find somewhere, but you might as well grab this one while it's available.
Who is RAR? I thought that
Who is RAR? I thought that ancient egyptian god is called RA? And the god of stuffing information is ZIP. And the god of tracking is FEDEX. And the princess of writing mysterious virtual things is PFF. And there is this other guy NVU for the mysterious HTML and CSS. For just about organizing everything you can climb the steep hill of the pretty almighty big fat OO.
Ah, I see, from time to time I use to have my very seldom used god "TOTAL COMMANDER" showing up.
Bad times for these unknown RAR gods (and similar) nowadays. Even the popular god of transportation AOL is having bad TIMES :-)
Big mystery from the last millenium: Why did the empire of MS never ever disclose the secrets of ZIP or TAR to their shell or GUI in the very early stages of being?
Dead on arrival Reports
Dead on arrival
Reports about timeouts and all the expected effects start here:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=482722&st=120
Did somebody say "bad PR" :-)
Hmmm... If you're looking
Hmmm... If you're looking for something more capable than WinZip, you could try izarc. Allows you to bzip2 (and others) a log file on a *nix box, for example, and bring it up to your local machine for analyzing...
Well, that's my UselessKnowledge.james for today...
I was GOING to blog this!
I was just about to blog this, too! I tried off and on from literally midnight Saturday night until about 11:00 PM last night with the same results. I dunno about the PR though, they certainly got at least one dummy as a new subscriber to their newsletter... :c/
Hey, Thanks!
I will check it out. I do have the WinRAR open-source or whatever it was that is fully-functional and (at least was) free; I didn't realize it was open-source, but thought it was shareware. I know that sounds funky, but RAR was a free utility, so I'd assumed it was an early upgrade to 95/98-compliant systems. I also have an unlock code for WinZip that came with the version on a box I bought off a guy several years back -- I just don't know if it works anymore and haven't tried it. I'll have to find it on one of the 234982340970294204703 million CDs I have around here... so, I think I'll check out this site first. Thanks again!
HAHAHA!
I remember the BBS days where, as SysOp, I had to have every stupid, obscure, little archiver on-board. The greatest thing about it was that after I'd done the months-long search for them all, Renegade had a great coding system which allowed for archive conversion, so I had a built-on archiving shell right there and I got so used to it that until I found WinZip, I used to copy things to disk from 98 and throw them on the Tandy to convert them to Zip... of course, after a short time, they all became incompatible... which is how I found WinZip. But I always preferred RAR -- much better compression, fewer errors. So now almost all the old 3.5s I have are RAR files and I have to fire-up the old 3.11 to work with them, since they are incompatible with the new RAR version(s)... Ah, 3.11, Renegade BBS, and command-line options... those were the days, huh?
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