[William Pratt (Vulgus)] A Chance to Advance

[OldGreyGeek]

A redo of first two chapters originally posted on 8muses and then a do of the rest of the chapters (1400+ files)

 

[OldGreyGeek]

Remainder

 

[Pingupingu]

Seems the archives are password protected

 

[OldGreyGeek]

Seems the archives are password protected

Not sure what you're saying. Do you mean that the files "Book*.rar" are password protected? I don't password protect anything but financial information.
Has anyone else got or seen a problem?
The files are a .rar of .rar's and while it doesn't cause me a problem, UMMV.
Remember (or not) my discourse on .rar and .zip. You can simply change the extension (.rar <--> .zip) and access. I don't understand it and won't even try to explain it, but in Windows it works. This file extension change also works with .cbr. HOWEVER, that said, this is a .rar of .rar's and the CDisplayEx can't handle that. So, use WinRAR or 7-Zip to export the individual .rar's, change their extensions to whatever works for your system and view.
Please let me know of problems. I did this project for others to enjoy and if it ain't working that is a problem.

 

[Pingupingu]

This is the message on my iPad, with the app „documents“
I did try it on Win10 and it works.
Conclusion: It‘s an iOS problem.
Thanks for your reply. Much appreciated.

 

[OldGreyGeek]

This is the message on my iPad, with the app „documents“
I did try it on Win10 and it works.
Conclusion: It‘s an iOS problem.
Thanks for your reply. Much appreciated.

Why am I not surprised .

 

[Yeah_Right...]

If it asks on iOS, it may well be that the whatever it is you tried to open it with, doesn't know how to handle .rar files and as result assumes it's password protected.

Contrary to what the previous poster said, changing extension from rar <-> zip doesn't make a zip from a rar or a rar from a zip. On Windows, if you're using anything else than the default compressed folder explorer add-on, that'll very likely support multiple formats and just ignores the extension. FYI, a CBR (Comic Book Rar) is actually a true RAR file. Like a CBZ (Comic Book Zip) is actually a true ZIP file. Some programs use either RAR or ZIP as dedicated default filetype, but to prevent auto-launching, reading and scanning when clicking on a RAR or ZIP, they also use a dedicated extension to distinguish _their_ respective files from the generic ones.

 

[OldGreyGeek]

If it asks on iOS, it may well be that the whatever it is you tried to open it with, doesn't know how to handle .rar files and as result assumes it's password protected.

Contrary to what the previous poster said, changing extension from rar <-> zip doesn't make a zip from a rar or a rar from a zip. On Windows, if you're using anything else than the default compressed folder explorer add-on, that'll very likely support multiple formats and just ignores the extension. FYI, a CBR (Comic Book Rar) is actually a true RAR file. Like a CBZ (Comic Book Zip) is actually a true ZIP file. Some programs use either RAR or ZIP as dedicated default filetype, but to prevent auto-launching, reading and scanning when clicking on a RAR or ZIP, they also use a dedicated extension to distinguish _their_ respective files from the generic ones.

Thanks for the elaboration details. Twas informative.
However, I never said it changed a .rar into a .zip or vice-versa.
My original observation of this was from 8MF users that would request the download of a .zip when the file(s) were posted as .rar or, less frequently, the other way around. In those cases I said, change the extension and drive on.
My original sin was my extrapolation beyond my environment. I'm using WinRAR, 7-Zip and CDisplayEx which appear to be first tier with respect to flexibility in opening files. I simply found the extension change worked. Using other tools YMMV, as experienced by the iOS user Pingupingu.
Now, one more push-back. Just because an archive is labeled .CBR or .CBZ isn't an indicator of what the actual file's structure is. Take a straight .rar and change the extension to .cbz and CDisplayEx is happy to open it. This is just an observation. Apparently these tools pretty much don't care as long as the format is in their list of supported file types. It does appear that WinRAR and 7-Zip both prefer to let CDisplayEx open the .CBR and .CBZ files.
As the trades know, having the right tools makes the job easier.
TTFN

 

[Yeah_Right...]

Just because an archive is labeled .CBR or .CBZ isn't an indicator of what the actual file's structure is.
Take a straight .rar and change the extension to .cbz and CDisplayEx is happy to open it.
This is just an observation. Apparently these tools pretty much don't care as long as the format is in their list of supported file types.
It does appear that WinRAR and 7-Zip both prefer to let CDisplayEx open the .CBR and .CBZ files.

That's exactly what I meant when I said "using anything else than...". When a program knows how to handle different formats, it doesn't really matter which of the supported extensions is used and whether or not it matches the actual format.
It simply opens the file using whatever method to determine which internal format handler to activate for further processing.