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For compressing, but for uncompressing you can literally build unrar from source if you want, here's the source: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-7.1.1.tar.g
by joecool1029 2y ago
For compressing, but for uncompressing you can literally build unrar from source if you want, here's the source: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-7.1.1.tar.gz https://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-7.1.1.tar.gz
I do want to point out that for transmitting compresed files 7z is fine, but as a longer term backup format rar has a lot of functionality that makes it convenient (built in verification, parity generation/repair, support for all the extended filesystem attributes)
- o11c 2y agoThat's not open source, only public source, which is a major limitation.
- joecool1029 2y agoIt's open source. Here's the license: https://github.com/pmachapman/unrar/blob/master/license.txt https://github.com/pmachapman/unrar/blob/master/license.txt (There is one single restriction added that you are not allowed to create a rar archiver with it, only a tool to handle existing rar files)
- o11c 2y agoOther than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? A single restriction is enough to ruin everything.