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Originally Posted by charlene
well I just clicked on the guitars.com and it opened and i then clicked on the mediafire linked in red and it opened just fine.
GLTC75.rar
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Char, I did not in any way disbelieve you ,it was obviously still there when you looked and were able to download it .I was merely pointing out for other latecomers to this thread that it ain't there no more
This does however give me the chance to add some remarks about rar format archived files, these are an alternative to the common zip files for compressing files when required
First why "rar"
from the inevitable "wiki":-
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RAR stands for
Roshal
ARchive. It is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression .error recovery and file spanning.. It was developed by a Russian software engineer, Eugene Roshal (the first letter of his surname contributing to the name of the archive format), and is currently licensed by
win.rar GmbH"
One big advantage that the rar format has over the zip formats is that large files may be split into many easier to distribute smaller files see:-
http://www.rarlab.com/rar_file.htm
"Some RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes. They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc. If you need to unpack volumes, place all them to the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.
for handling all archived files I highly recommended the totally free program jzip
http://http://www.jzip.com..
this program will extract the content files of most archiving formats including zip., rar and also ISOs (CD or DVD disc image) files
it can create zips but due to licensing restictions not rars. but it can extract the original large file from a complete set of those smaller rar files, one simply right clicks on the master file which is usually named filename.rar and as if by magic jzip will plough through the rest until you have the original single large file.
This is decidedly easier than the procedure that Char and I went through a few years ago after I found that a Lightfoot fan and one time Newsgrouper from Invercargill on New Zealand's South Island (Ron Jenkins) had a copy of a 26MB video file of the Reno 2000 rendition of Beautiful that had been part of If I Remember Correctly the original CBC television airing but then got omitted from the DVD as issued. That 26MB file was way too large for our then email providers to tackle. So Ron patiently (most of the time) split it into 14 2MB segments and sent it to us by email. He had used a program called,I think EO Video. but today in addition to any number of free file hosting websites it is easy to achieve the same result using the rar format.
I have within the last year contacted Ron and will in due course pass details to our resident Kiwi ( a.k.a. "seven islands")