Ideas about improving packer in TC

[johnw]

In total commander 8.5 b2a the rar packer helper says use winrar but the default is rar.exe. The create self extracting archive for rar type does not work. Would it be possible to allow more configuring of rar files to allow different levels of compression (best normal or store)? Can you allow a user to set switches on the rar compression?

Thanks for a great program.

[Gral]

To get create self-extracting archive works you need proper DEFAULT.SFX module present in the same directory as RAR.EXE or WINRAR.EXE.
You can also specify commandline options for RAR or WINRAR in config dialog window e.g.:

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WINRAR.EXE -s- -m5 -kb -tl
-s-     Disable solid archiving (-s for enable)
-m5     use best compression method (-m0 for store)
-kb     Keep broken extracted files (if you use WINRAR for extraction too)
-tl     Set archive time to newest file