Mooby's CDR crash

[Mr. Killjoy]

Argh, I just rar-ed (best compression, it took 1 hour and half!) a bin with Winrar 3.10, then I ran ePSXe to read it...

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Crash!!!!

so I decided to read the doc (how stupid! I should have read it BEFORE): it's written that it's compatible with 2.xx rar files only

Here are my questions:

Does anyone know when it will be compatible with 3.xx rar?

How can I compress in 2.xx with winrar 3.xx?

[Gismo]

why don't u use the internal .bz compression? sometimes it's better than .rar one

Thx, bye

[Mr. Killjoy]

Yeah, thanks for ur help, but when friends borrow my games,
they don't always have ePSXe+mooby's plugin, unless there is a tool to extract .bz files without having the emu/plugin

[Gismo]

ehehe, I know... but

I tried to open a .bz file w/ WinRAR and extract it... no problem at all (I also tried the ISO after extraction)! so, u can use the .bz compression!
another program to extract .bz files under Windows is StuffIt, make a Google search for it...

Thx, bye

[Mr. Killjoy]

Winrar can decompress .bz???
Fine, I'm gonna use this format

Thx again

[Gismo]

yes, u need to open the .bz on WinRAR and then use the "Extract" button or option... as u can see, WinRAR doesn't show the properties of the file in the .bz archive, but this isn't important, right?

Je suis content de t'avoir aidé

Thx, bye

[Mr. Killjoy]

>> Je suis content de t'avoir aidé

Je suis content que tu m'aie aidé

>> but this isn't important, right?

Yeah, I don't care

Thanks again²

[Gismo]

yes, even if I've lived in Geneva since October 2001, my French (especially the written one) is far from perfection ... but I'm making all I can to improve it

Thx, bye

[Mr. Killjoy]

>> even if I've lived in Geneva since October 2001, my French (especially the written one) is far from perfection ... but I'm making all I can to improve it

>> Je suis content de t'avoir aidé

Aucune faute d'orthographe ou de grammaire

[mooby]

cdrmooby only supports rar 2.x, not 3.x. when the rar library i use supports 3.x, my plugin will support it as well...

[mooby]

Originally posted by Killjoy
Winrar can decompress .bz???

sure, but the bz format i use is a bit different than what winrar supports. you'll still need to use my plugin to decompress it.

[Mr. Killjoy]

Do you plan to make your plugin compatible with winrar 3.xx formats?

EDIT: Oups, I didn't noticed you double-posted

and what's the .z format?

[Kirby]

I think Winrar can convert to 2.x now. Or can it read 2.x ? Just use something other than 3.x

[mooby]

hm... after some testing, i take back what i said about winrar/bz stuff. i suppose winrar CAN decompress those files. very interesting...

[Gismo]

Originally posted by mooby
hm... after some testing, i take back what i said about winrar/bz stuff. i suppose winrar CAN decompress those files. very interesting...

eheheh Mooby, I don't suppose, I'm sure! I tested it before posting this info to Killjoy and all worked

Thx, bye

[Gismo]

Originally posted by Killjoy
and what's the .z format?

from http://www.cknow.com/ckinfo/def_c/co...formats.shtml:

- Bzip UNIX Compressed File (.BZ, replaced by .BZ2).
An open source, freely available compression program. The PPM family of statistical compressors typically produces the maximum compression for a file and Bzip compresses to 85-90% of that goal. It accomplishes this being twice as fast on compression and some six times faster on decompression. For Bzip2 see...
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html

- Z Compressed Archive File (.Z).
Output file of the UNIX compress utility. The UNIX uncompress command is used to decompress a .Z file (although many other programs will also decompress the file).

Thx, bye

[Gismo]

Originally posted by Killjoy
Yeah, thanks for ur help, but when friends borrow my games,
they don't always have ePSXe+mooby's plugin, unless there is a tool to extract .bz files without having the emu/plugin

ok, the proprietary text-line based bzip2 (useful also for .bz compressed archive) decompressor/compressor, from RedHat site, ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v...-x86-win32.exe (this version was compiled and tested on Windows 2000, the author doesn't know if it works also on 95/98/ME/NT/XP); the link to the bzip2 page

Thx, bye

PS obviously, as u probably need only to decompress .bz file, u can still use WinRAR

[Mr. Killjoy]

OK, interesting information. Thank you all