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Re:7-Zip for Linux by hansel_der on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:52PM (#26428244)
maybe they want to unpack rar-archives?
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Re:7-Zip for Linux by pitaj on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:00PM (#26428333)
You can do that with 7zip IIRC
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Re:7-Zip for Linux by marcodiego on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:16PM (#26428501)
AFAIK there're opensource decompressors for rar files. Except for RAR6 which are definitely not very common.
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Re:7-Zip for Linux by alternatetwo on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:58PM (#26430598)
In fact, unrar has been open sourced by WinRAR themselves. Or rather, they made the source available, with certain conditions, i.e. not using it to reverse engineer the rar format.
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