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Old 04-03-2004, 01:29 PM   #1
varunk123456
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rar.rpm options


i've just installed one rpm for extracting rar extension files from freshrpms.net

now the problem is that m not quite able to understand out of all the options from the --help document to how to extract my file

my file is stored in /home/kush directory

just give me the command for extracting i wan't my output directory to be the same as my input directory

if anyone has any idea abt this then plz help me out

thank u
 
Old 04-04-2004, 04:17 AM   #2
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from memory (and I might be wrong here)

rar doesn't unrar rar files
you need unrar to do that
 
  


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