http://www.unrarx.com/

Thanks a million!!

Have you done it? Could I possibly pick your brain a little? Any help would be grateful.

And then there’s unix based operating systems that don’t even need a special program – one of the most necessary utilities in it – the one that mounts a disk partition i.e., mount, – allows for mounting iso images (remember an iso image resembles a disk volume or more so it contains a file system) to wherever you want. And many unix based archive programs support many different file types. The ones that don’t are the ones that are named after the actual format. E.g., tar actually is for tar format (though it can use a variety of compression algorithms). zip is for zip, unzip is you guessed it to unzip a zip archive.

And rar versus zip. It’s simple. They offer similar capability but different algorithms to contain and compress files in them. They’re both archive formats, just have different strengths and weaknesses. Note that generally speaking compressing (or trying to) compress media files (images or music / video) will result in equal size or it’s actually possible (and likely) to be bigger (archiving without compression is certainly useful though). See also:

http://www.maximumcompression.com/index.html

In general, a file type can ‘appear’ (by say extension) to be a different type. But try opening an executable in a graphics editing program and you might have some issues. Okay, definitely unless it’s really strange program; how or why would a graphics editor have a program interpreter? It’s all the file format and that’s the difference between zip and rar: different file types = different file formats. They just both happen to have similar functionality. There’s many other types of archive types; see the list at the link I provided for example.

Kind regards,
C.

Roger

As for your original question, Zamzar is an online converter that can convert rar files to the zip format.