RAR files

[holtlynx]

I'm sure this is on the site somewhere but I falied to find it. What is the trick for playing .rar files? I have just joined rapidshare thanks to the various excellent suggestions on this site, notably from the inestimable lajla, and have downloaded a file but can't make it play. Tried to "Extract" and got as far as the Dos looking screen with unRAR.exe. Is there a magic word or something? And also, where there are multiple files, do they have to be joined back together like HJsplit or do they play indivudally. Any assistance gratefully received.

[goboy]

I'm no expert, but try using Real Player instead of Media Viewer.

[biGGie]

Yeah a .RAR file is just like a .ZIP file, its a compressed file format.

You can use a few different tools to decompress the contents of a .RAR file. One that is free is 7-zip, you should find it easily if you give it a google, see if that helps.