On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, RiverWind wrote: > When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the > file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit,
This is incorrect. > should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux > utilities will not work, because it seems that MS-Windows allows Spaces need to be escaped on the command line shell, but that's it. They're allowed anywhere. In fact, if anything, Linux allows too much. > I am attempting to extract a large number of rar files using > "unrar-free" with no success. I understand that it might be unrar-free is useless. You will have to use the non-free one, or something else that can deal with modern RAR archives. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111004174831.gb31...@khazad-dum.debian.net
