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Title: rar?
Post by: spike979 on April 15, 2008, 07:57:45 PM
how do I use rar files of skins/meshes?


-thanks
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Title: Re: rar?
Post by: GogglesPizanno on April 15, 2008, 08:15:32 PM
Its a compression format similar to a zip file.

You can use a program like Winrar
http://www.rarlab.com/ - Its shareware, but it only nags you and remains fully functional.

A couple of free alternatives that will extract (but not create) rar files are:
7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
PeaZip - http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
Title: Re: rar?
Post by: stumpy on April 15, 2008, 10:20:26 PM
Just wanted to add that I would go with 7-zip. The interface is straightforward (based on the Windows folder motif) and, in addition to RAR, it support normal ZIP files and it supports 7Z files, which usually compress better than ZIPs and are becoming fairly popular.
Title: Re: rar?
Post by: spike979 on April 16, 2008, 12:28:43 PM
7-zip is working great, thank you.