Free: Unrestricted, licenced WinRAR

[RARLAB Support]

Once Upon A Time (on or around 29 Jul 2006 04:42:02 -0000), in

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Vrodok the Piglet lover wrote: [snip]

goto
rarlab.com or rarsoft.com

scroll to bottom
see:
`Copyright 2002-2006 Alexander Roshal. All rights reserved.
win.rar GmbH - the official publisher for RARLAB products - handles all
support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR and www.rarlab.com.'

click `Partnership'
goto http://www.win-rar.com/partners

or

click `Dealers'
scroll to bottom
see:
`If you are looking for additional information on WinRAR, please also
visit www.win-rar.com.'

or

click `Other'
see `Sales'
`Please send your questions about sales and licensing questions to
(e-mail address removed).
English, French, German or Spanish please.'

Anybody (especially the unscrupulous) can put anything on a website that they
may desire. Here's something you may not have heard of; all the above you've
typed, but possibly the download-link on redirect. So, one ends-up grabbing a
file from a site that, to most intents and purposes, *appears* as if it is
hosted on a legitimate website, but ain't.

If the download-link was (verifiably) hosted at/on the Rarlabs (from whence
comes WinRar itself) site, I would not have a problem. Elsewhere ("win-rar.com"
*looks* familiar, and safe, but that sort of sentiment is what sucks-in the
unwary. And the naive trusting souls, to their detriment. Happened *many*, many
times. Been there, done that.

Well, it's your computer.

blah, blah, blah

have you yet cleaned off your face ; what a piglet spew

*appears* as if you did make a mess of every thread ; this gratuitous offer

with interest we observe how your poison spread to the naive trusting
souls, to their detriment

your sort of sentiment is what sucks-in the unwary

 

[Manuel Otto]

As far as I know, 7-Zip can uncompress RAR files, but it cannot
compress them. I don't believe you can make RAR files with 7-Zip,
which is what I use. Since people persist in using proprietary RAR
files instead of the universal and open ZIP file format, it might
be worth having WinRAR for making RAR files, but only if it can be
downloaded for free -- it's definitely not worth paying for.

Agree, I can not create rar files, only open and extract them, but not
going to download yet an other compression utility.

I allready have 7-Zip, Freebyte Zip and WinImp, that's enough. Don't
want more, only cause rar is closed source software.

 

[Manuel Otto]

Once Upon A Time (on or around 29 Jul 2006 18:42:53 -0700), in
alt.comp.freeware, (e-mail address removed), by way of Message-iD


Ah. Well, that info was bound in mist and magic <g> firstly. Boiling cauldron
seemed to dominate, whilst now doth the colorful rainbow : )

Yes, it was totally unclear at first. If they only explained it better
to start with then lots of confusion would have been avoided.

 

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If they only explained it better to start with then lots of
confusion would have been avoided.

I don't think it matters how clearly they explained it. There's
been a notice at the bottom of the main RARLABS page about it since
spring 2003 at least, according to archive.org. It currently reads:

"win.rar GmbH - the official publisher for RARLAB products - handles
all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR and www.rarlab.com."

And the link is to the www.win-rar.com domain where today's key offer
lives.

 

[Roger Hunt]

~They should be rewarding those of us who *have* coughed up for
~registration!
~
Your cheque is in the mail.

Thank-you! Holiday booked.

 

[Vrodok the Piglet lover]

Once Upon A Time (on or around 30 Jul 2006 08:41:10 -0000), in
alt.comp.freeware, RARLAB Support <[email protected]>, by way of Message-iD

*appears* as if you did make a mess of every thread ; this gratuitous offer

[flush]

And speaking of flushing, why don't you go & flush yourself?

 

[James UK]

»Q« leapt out of the bath and screamed "EUREKA!" before typing in
alt.comp.freeware:

No, it's not fake. After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
<http://www.rarlab.com/>.

Thanks for that confirm, and thanks to the OP for the link.

For the record, I tried many times from the UK last night. Eventually
got my download link, and key, and all registered fine here.

Regards