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HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

 
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Michael Mike Reaser
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HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

I will soon be required to read RAR and WinZIP archives, produced on a Windows XP system, on my HP9000 rp4440 running 11.11.

Is there a single utility that will read both? Is there a single *FREE* utility that will read both?

I've already tried searching the forums on this, and found a thread referencing bzip2, which would appear to handle at least the RAR stuff

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1164605

which pointed to the Utah repository

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/bzip2-1.0.4/

Unfortunately, that last link doesn't exist. A search at Utah showed that the current version of bzip2 is 1.0.5, but its page is missing, too.

Is bzip2 the way I should go? If so, where else other than Utah can I find it?

Thanks!
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Robert-Jan Goossens_1
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

Michael Mike Reaser
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

Robert-Jan, would you happen to know if bzip2 will work for both RARs and WinZIPs, or just RARs?
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

to the best of my knowledge bzip2 *doesn't* handle winrar files.

it will handle zip, bz2 and so on. see:
http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/bzip2/

gzip is also available, but it doesn't handle rar files either.

there is a program "unrar" that should handle the winrar stuff, but might not handle the regular zip files (I've not looked).

also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrar

there are free and commercial versions available for that one

Michael Mike Reaser
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

OldSchool:> to the best of my knowledge bzip2 *doesn't* handle winrar files.

Well, poo. Since I'm being forced to deal with both formats, I was hoping to find a single utility that would Play Nicely with RARs *and* Windows-generated ZIPs.

If you think it will let me see the contents of at least a WinZIP .zip file, I will ask our admins to grab and install bzip2 ASAP. Thank you!!!~
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Robert-Jan Goossens_1
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

Hi again,

I was testing bzip2, unzip and winrar for unix.

Is there a single utility that will read both?

No, I could only use winrar for windows rar files and unzip for windows zip files.

http://www.win-rar.com/rarextras.html

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.52/

Regards,
Robert-Jan
Steven E. Protter
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

Shalom,

Seems like you need a single utility for each format.

You could write shell script wrapper to call these utilities. Then your wrapper script would be the single utility.

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Michael Mike Reaser
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

Robert-Jan - Thanks. If I understand you correctly, bzip2 will *NOT* work with WinZIP files, and only Unzip will. Correct?

SEP - Yep, that's my plan. But I couldn't start scripting my way out of this hole I'm in, until I knew what tools I could use. :-)
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Robert-Jan Goossens_1
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

correct!
Steven Schweda
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

> [...] until I knew what tools I could use.
> :-)

It wouldn't hurt (much) to have all these
tools (or at least bzip2 and Info-ZIP UnZip)
lying around, so that you could see pretty
easily which ones actually _do_ work.
(Reality tends to be more reliable than
advice, too.)