paul marwick,

10-Sep-99 09:41:32, paul marwick wrote to Roy J. Tellason
 pm> Replying to a message of Roy J. Tellason to paul marwick:
          Subject: File Managers

 pm>>> I use RAR

 pm> My only complaint about it is that the self extrating archives
 pm> that it generates are platform specific, so I can't generate a
 pm> single self extractor that I can use on multiple platforms. Still,
 pm> since I have multiple mplatform versions of RAR, that isn't a
 pm> major concern

Try using the DOS version of RAR to create the Self-extracting.  Then it will
extract under OS/2 and Windows.  Otherwise what you said about files created
with the Windows or OS/2 versions of RAR being platform specific, is correct.

BTW, in spite of the fact I registered RAR, and it is slightly better at
compression in some situations, I don't recommend using RAR for a lot of
reasons I don't want to go into here.

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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