Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
From:    Nightfox(21:1/137)
Date:    Tue May 05, 2026 07:52

  Re: Re: RAR on Raspberry Pi
  By: Gods69 to Nightfox on Tue May 05 2026 08:49 am

 Ni>> Interesting..  I've been using Intel x86/64 compatible Linux distros for
 Ni>> years, and there is a rar and unrar I've been able to install and use for

 Go> "Please note no alternative Open Source free RAR archiver utility (rar
 Go> creator) is available: UNRAR is available as royalty-free and open source
 Go> software for all owing extraction of RAR archives both on Linux and
 Go> Microsoft Windows, but with the clause of not reverse engineering the code
 Go> for implementing RAR compression which prevents development of royalty
 Go> free rar archivers & compressors capable to create or add files to said
 Go> format."

Okay, so unrar is available royalty free, but that doesn't explain why rar (the compressor) is available free on Linux?

Nightfox
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