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Name: hordeprime
Date: December 9, 2002 at 02:29:16 Pacific
OS: WinME
CPU/Ram: 128MB RAM
Comment:

I have downloaded several RAR files. They are labeled x.part1.rar through x.part5.rar. I need help figuring out how to get file x.zip to appear. File x.zip supposedly contains file x.img, which is my ultimate goal.

I believe what I'm trying to do is combine these rar files into one single zip file which can then be unzipped into the target file that I am looking for. Sound right?
(I know that when I use DataViz Engine to open a zip file, it shows me all the files within that zip. When I try to zip/extract/whatever these rar files into one, instead of seeing x.img in DVE, I just see the individual rars that I started with. This is no good.)

I have downloaded WinRAR, but its vocabulary is baffling. I can't see an immediate way to squish these individual rar files into one zip that will give me the result I want.

Can UltimateZip give me a more direct solution?

I have also gotten several error messages stating some of the files are corrupt. But since I don't know if I've even been approaching the problem correctly, I have no way of making sense out of the error messages. They may just me errors that I'm creating because I'm not using WinRAR correctly.

I sincerely appreciate any tutorial advice on this problem. Thanks.



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Response Number 1
Name: Al
Date: December 9, 2002 at 07:43:39 Pacific
Reply:

Rar is not connected in any way with ZIP. Rar is an entirely separate compression utility, and if the RAR files DO combine as you assume, the will make one large RAR file, not ZIP file. Use Winrar.


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Response Number 2
Name: wawadave
Date: December 9, 2002 at 10:20:40 Pacific
Reply:

hello
you might try uncompersing them all in one folder.


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Response Number 3
Name: www
Date: December 9, 2002 at 20:24:17 Pacific

Response Number 4
Name: hordeprime
Date: December 10, 2002 at 20:17:55 Pacific
Reply:

Let me rephrase the question.

I have files:
x.part1.rar
x.part2.rar
x.part3.rar
x.part4.rar

Is there a specific WinRAR command that will combine these into one RAR file?

I have tried using the "extract" command both with individual parts highlighted & with all parts highlighted. The result is usually an empty folder "x". What is that? Is that what I get when the parts are corrupt?

I realize the normal RAR format is to have files: x.exe, x.r00, etc. But that's not what I have. Does anyone understand the nature of what I've got?

Thanks in advance.


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