[NBLUG/talk] m3g compression?

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Tue Dec 28 11:41:42 PST 2004


Lincoln,

You're almost as much of a prince as Mark Street... ;)

We ought to have a three day weekend for you!

WHO KNEW rar and unrar were unrelated at birth?

(It worked!)

Thank you!

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 10:19 am, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 00:17 -0800, Robert Hayes wrote:
> > I've been asked to uncompress a rar file that kept failing to unrar.
> >
> > Upon inspection I see that it is comprised of files listed with a
> > compression method of m3g.
> >
> > Huh?
> >
> > A google on it leads me to think it is a hardware compression format, or
> > a proprietary format.
>
> What program are you using to try to do the decompression?  The last
> time I looked at ways to handle RAR files, I found two programs in the
> Debian repository:
>
> unrar: a free program for decompressing (but not creating) RAR archives.
> I found that it was not able to decompress every RAR file I came across.
>
> rar: a shareware program (in the non-free repository) that can create
> and decompress RAR archives.  It succeeded at reading many RAR files
> where "unrar" failed.
>
> If, however, this format somehow depends on a piece of hardware, it may
> be hopeless.  Chances are, however, that it's simply a proprietary
> format which "rar" may be able to read.
>
> ---
> Lincoln Peters
> <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
>
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