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[LUG] RAR Files

 

Hello, hope all is well on this fine Saturday and looking forward to
seeing some people in Paignton LUG this afternoon :)

I had a client send me a .rar compressed file yesterday and I had to
download some additional software to uncompress it. I started looking
online to see if .rar was non-free so that I could warn the client
against it in future but couldn't find anything to say it wasn't. I
remember something called winrar in the past which I would certainly
know wasn't free - but I don't know if the format is or isn't. So
obviously couldn't warn the client, and promote tar instead. 

Can anyone clear this little confusion up?

Thanks in advance

Joe


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