Re: rar command

2003-10-13 Thread David Oakes
Michael Flaig wrote: strange... unrar exists, but not rar ? Not really. Rar is a non-free program (can't recall whether it is currently commercial or shareware) and the authors have decided to only compile versions for processors where they believe that they will make some money. The result is

Re: rar command

2003-10-13 Thread Josef Spillner
On Sunday 12 October 2003 22:45, Michael Flaig wrote: > strange... unrar exists, but not rar ? That's unrelated to PowerPC: Decompression algorithms are deterministic, while compression takes a lot of logic, heuristics and knowledge about specific data properties like periodic occurences of byte

Re: rar command

2003-10-12 Thread Michael Flaig
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 08:01:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 08:30:52PM +0200, SpawnPPC wrote: > > One of dependences is RAR command. > > > > Why it don't exist for DebianPPC? > > > > Where I found the src for recompile from me?

Re: rar command

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 08:30:52PM +0200, SpawnPPC wrote: > One of dependences is RAR command. > > Why it don't exist for DebianPPC? > > Where I found the src for recompile from me? rar is non-free. There appears to be no source code, at least not in the Debian archive, and

rar command

2003-10-12 Thread SpawnPPC
Hi all. I'm Emanuele. Today I'm compile DVDRip GUI software for DebianPPC. I'll do it. But now, the DVDRip software want a dependences. One of dependences is RAR command. Why it don't exist for DebianPPC? Where I found the src for recompile from me? Bye. Emanuele.