Hi Guys, 

On Tuesday 26 November 2019 14:26:54 Michael wrote:
> On Monday 25 November 2019 06:05:34 pm Dave Lers wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 04:02:36PM -0600, Michael wrote:
> > >> On Monday 25 November 2019 01:53:35 pm Baron wrote:
> > >> > Hi Guys,
> > >> >
> > >> > Does anybody know if the "RAR" format has changed ?
> > >>
> > >> Possibly just broken?  Try
> > >>
> > >> tar -x --ignore-failed-read
> > >
> > > RAR, not tar.
> >
> > $ unrar x "*.rar" (CL extraction in rar dir) should tell you
> > something. If its broken, $ unrar x -kb "*.rar" will keep what it
> > can extract. See $ unrar h for more options.
> > AFAIK no significant changes have been made since 2013.
>
> RAR, shmar, so I can't read...
>
> Who knew there are so many unpacking tool just for RAR.  Hideous
> non-free software should be made illegal!  Here's a partial list *:
>
> unar
> unrar
> unp
> rar
> lsar ?
> p7zip
> dnf
> rar
>
>
> * Blatantly stolen from:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246535/how-to-open-rar-fil
>e-in-linux

First, thankyou to all that responded to my post asking about RAR 
files.  Lots of good info there.

I did download the latest RAR and UNRAR  Version 5.8 beta4 and tried 
with that.  The best that I get is that it is not a RAR file and 
there are no extractable files.

This gets weird because I can extract my older files without issue !  
The chap that has sent me his RAR file has no problem opening the one 
that I returned to him.  He is a Windows user.

Using an editor and comparing the header code with a known good RAR it 
seems quite different and has a number of references to Adobe, which 
my old RAR files don't.

So I'm suspicious that this is a Windows thing.

Thanks all.


-- 
Best Regards:
            Baron