Re: [Pan-users] Re: Problems unraring archives downloaded with PAN.

[Travis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Richie" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 20:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Problems unraring archives downloaded with PAN.


> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM, David Kelly <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:42:52PM -0700, Travis wrote:
>>>
>>> His command line didn't work.
>>
>> No kidding? Perhaps that is why the OP posted? As I explained earlier
>> the unrar command line has an unusual uncommon syntax.
>>
>>> Double clicking always works for me.
>>
>> Not helping by not providing *any* detail as to why it works. As to
>> what hooks were installed, what optional packages, or even what desktop
>> you are running?
>>
>> I have the latest KDE installed, but I find its GUI file navigation too
>> clumsy and use command line in a terminal window. OTOH I'm happy with
>> Finder in MacOS X. Yet I still supplement with Terminal.app on Mac.
>>
>> You know that one can mount a .iso file by double-clicking in MacOS X?
>> Clearly the solution to mounting .iso files is for everyone to run
>> MacOS X.
>>
>> --
>> David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
>> ========================================================================
>> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
>>
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> 
> unrar x $file
> extracts $file with the full path. If the archive contains a folder
> blah with file blah.blah. Using unrar x will produce
> $PWD/blah/blah.blah.
> 
> unrar e $file
> extracts $file to current directory without rebuilding the folder
> structure. Following the above example you would end up with blah.blah
> in the current directory.
> 
> If the OPs command is not a typo, the problem is with the '/' 's There
> most likely isn't a rar archive located at / nor have write
> permissions to / . IF there is a rar archive in / and  does have write
> permission to / there's a whole other set of problems here.
> 
> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) I do believe that
> qualifies as Linux?
> 
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.16670 <-- Could be why
> double clicking also works for you.

Exactly.  Vista just works.
-- 
Travis in Shoreline Washington