software to view .rar content

[dansheen]

I'm looking for software so that I can see what's inside a compressed
file, rars particularly, before opening. Zipgenius does this but
doesn't support .rar. Most other programs I've checked don't seem to
have that option.

 

[Fran]

Any decent archiver should support it. Try IZarc.

 

[ceg]

7-zip

 

[Anonymous]

dansheen pretended :

I'm looking for software so that I can see what's inside a compressed file,
rars particularly, before opening. Zipgenius does this but doesn't support
.rar. Most other programs I've checked don't seem to have that option.

Dansheen,

IZArc (http://www.izarc.org/download.html) will do RAR's, and about
fifty other compression types too.

 

[CharlieDontSurf]

I'm looking for software so that I can see what's inside a compressed
file, rars particularly, before opening. Zipgenius does this but
doesn't support .rar. Most other programs I've checked don't seem to
have that option.

Iceows will do it:

http://www.iceows.com/

Be aware though, that if you attempt to unpack a multipart rar with
parts missing Iceows will seize and peg the CPU for a few minutes. It's
my only complaint with this comparatively small and snappy program.

 

[dansheen]

I'm looking for software so that I can see what's inside a compressed
file, rars particularly, before opening. Zipgenius does this but
doesn't support .rar. Most other programs I've checked don't seem to
have that option.

I'm not sure I was clear about what I'm looking for. I use izarc and
have no trouble opening/extracting rar files. If izarc does this I
haven't figured out how- I just want to view inside a rar file at its
contents before I extract it.

 

[dansheen]

Iceows will do it:

http://www.iceows.com/

Be aware though, that if you attempt to unpack a multipart rar with
parts missing Iceows will seize and peg the CPU for a few minutes. It's
my only complaint with this comparatively small and snappy program.

Thanks. I'm downloading now. From the description it looks like it
might work.

 

[Duddits]

I'm not sure I was clear about what I'm looking for. I use izarc and
have no trouble opening/extracting rar files. If izarc does this I
haven't figured out how- I just want to view inside a rar file at its
contents before I extract it.

FreeCommander does this as well.
http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

regards

Dud

 

[Al Klein]

I'm not sure I was clear about what I'm looking for. I use izarc and
have no trouble opening/extracting rar files. If izarc does this I
haven't figured out how- I just want to view inside a rar file at its
contents before I extract it.

The program actually extracts the files you're looking at to a
temporary location, then deletes them when it's done.

 

[dansheen]

FreeCommander does this as well.
http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

regards

Dud

Perfect- and it has some other great features. I've been using 2x for
my file software but I'm switching to this.