Re: RAR bits and peices

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:01:48 UTC, "Ben Dragon" <BDragon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I see only one possibility now - it's not a RAR archive at all. WinRAR is
> able
> > to handle many archive formats, so your archive may be created in some
> > > other
> > format but with confusing extension ('.r*')
> > Check your files: real RAR archives always begin with 'Rar!' string.
>
> I tried unarchiving it from the directory that the archive is in... same
> results. 8\
>
> I opened up the *.r00 file with Biew and it shows "Rar!" as expected.

Yes, it's very strange. Can you send me the first 120 bytes (approximately)
of any volume?

> Very strange indeed... but like I said.. WinRar will attempt the
> extraction without hesitation... of course it barfs at the 2 gig mark.

If you can expand this archive with WinRAR on the local drive, then you may
try to create a new multivolume archive with the same WinRAR (even without
compression for speed-up) and copy it over network to OS/2 box (or directly
use OS/2 system as a target directory during creation of archive).

--
Yuri Proniakin
.

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