[NBLUG/talk] m3g compression?

[Lincoln Peters]

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.

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