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Does anyone know what is needed to open these?Some of the European add ons come as a rar file. Never heard of this beforeThanksBobFlorida Railfan Page
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Winrar will open these...Do a google search for a site that has it. Cheers!
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Bob, You can get WinRAR at; http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
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WinAce will do the same.It is a bit easier to use, and will unwrap more file types.Highly recommended.Phil

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Rar files are very popular, because of the ease at which they can be spanned (Muliple part archives). I don't personally think that Winzip's spanning is that tricky, but as can be seen on this board many people find it confusing. Example: Marceline Sub Route.Winrar is obviously a good choice for rar files, but I sort of like Picozip. It handles all sorts of compression extensions, and has one great feature I have not found in many other "zip" applications; Batch Files. Essentially you can tell it to unzip a whole folder to some location, and so forth. With Winzip, it has to open a new "window" for each item extracted. Pico zip just extracts them where you want without any fuss.I have also tried Powerzip and power archiver. Both handle lots of extensions and so forth, but I found Pico to be faster and less buggy. Although Powerzip DOES allow for unzipping of multiple files easily too. (I think it is kind of slow though and the interface is pretty blah)Check it out here if you are interested:http://www.picozip.com/features.htmlPeace,MFOSPs. I am in no way am affiliated with these folks. They just make a pretty nice product and it will handle most, if not all, of your files compression needs.
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Guess I will put my two cents in. Have been using winrar for three years now and would never use another compression program. It is very easy to use, it will unzip zip and ace files and it will easily put the files where you want them. Have used winace and don't find it any easier. Have not used the others mentioned but for my money's worth, winrar is the best. Of course no two people ever agree on anything. Stick with winrar, it is the most downloaded compression utility on the internet. Ranger (Tim)Western Maryland Railroad
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I'm going to go with Tim and say that WinRAR beats them all for me. One thing I like is that if you drag a file out of an archive it doesn't restore the whole directory tree which WinACE does.

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?With Winzip, it has to open a new "window" for each
>item extracted. Pico zip just extracts them where you want
>without any fuss. What do you mean it opens a new "window" for each item extracted? You mean it opens the folder where the files have been extracted? That can be disabled...

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>What do you mean it opens a new "window" for each item
>extracted? You mean it opens the folder where the files have
>been extracted? That can be disabled... I was just thinking the same thing.If you select multiple zip archives (such as a folder full of them) and right click and drag them all to another folder, simply select extract here from the popup menu. No muss, no fuss. This -Jeff

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Just to throw some more 'mud' into the pond, I have found IZarc to be a reliable and free program for handling zipped files of all types. And it has a similar look and feel to Winzip. Here is a quick overview:

IZArc supports the following archive file type:
7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BZ2, BZA, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC,
GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MIM, PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM,
TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO All features of IZArc:

· Create an archive
· Add files to an existing archive
· Delete files from an existing archive
· Extract files from an existing archive
· Test an archive file
· Convert archive
· Repair broken archive
· Searching for any files in many archives
· Favorite Folders
· Obtaining a detailed list of files and information like
compression rate, path, or size from an archive file
· Supports both long and short 8.3 filenames
· Disk spanning from and to multiple diskettes or other removable
media
· Implementing the possibility to sort the list items by name size,
date and etc.
· Full Drag & Drop support
· Integrating in Windows Explorer context menu
· Automatic installation of most software distributed in archive
files
· Add / View comments in an archive
· By double-clicking onto a file in the file list, it's opened with
the program associated to this file type
· CheckOut feature
· Create a self-extracting archive
· E-mail an archive
· Checking for new updates
· Build-in multilanguage support
· Virus Scan feature
· UU/XX/MIME Encode/Decode
· Create Multi-Volume Set
· Merge Multi-Volume Set
· UnSFX (Convert self-extracting (SFX) .EXE files to standard
archives)
· Encrypt files using Rijandael - AES (256-bits) encryption
· Decrypt (.ize) files

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By the way Bob if the rar files are multipart with a executable part the rar files are read in automaticaly with out needing a RAR utility. Most of the Italian route I have d/l'd are of this type. Just put the executable file and the rar's in the same temp folder and double click the executable icon. DO NOT unpack the RAR files first. However there are also standalone RAR files on the European DL and these do require the utility. I like WinRAR and it is available for a free trial. Hope this helps.Be Seeing you.
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THANK YOU THANK YOUTHANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
I am all set, now I can download my DSB stock for the Danish routeThanks!BPFlorida Railfan Page
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Better than all the rest I've tried. FILZIP.It's a great companion to WINZIP, Honest, You will see why.http://www.filzip.com/
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