Integrate unrar [PSARC/2008/756 FastTrack timeout 12/15/2008]

[Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer]

Gerard Henry wrote:
>> Note, that p7zip is also able to extract RAR files.
>> .  However, since
>> the RAR format is rather popular and unrar
>>  utility can be found in all
>> major Linux distribution it still makes sense
>>  to have it ported to
>> OpenSolaris (it is not a common knowledge to
>>  use p7zip for extracting
>>        RAR files).
> 
> where have you seen that p7zip is able to extract RAR file? on os2008.11, the man page says nothing, and i'm unable to do it:
> henry at delljm:/tmp$ p7zip -d test.rar 
> /usr/bin/p7zip: test.rar: unknown suffix

try using:

  7z x test.rar

> 
> if p7zip is able to do it, a simple link from p7zip to unrar will be sufficient, before integration?

This would dependent upon the command line arguments etc and how it 
(unrar) is driven by the utilities that expect it.

Ta
pete
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> 
> gerard