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Subject: Re: How to peek inside most RAR files without downloading
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On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:19:53 +0000, Kieranisdrunk wrote:
> A lot of you probably know this but, for the benefit of those that
> don't,
> here is an easy way to see what a RAR file holds using nothing more than
> one of the most popular Usenet search engines and no need to download
> any files.
>
> First, you need to go to -
>
> http://www.binsearch.info/
>
> At the top click on the link for 'browse newsgroups'.
>
> Scroll down until you find alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks and click on that
> link.
>
> Now find the post you want to investigate. For example, go back to 04 or
> 05 Apr and find one of the posts with those odd headers. Let us say we
> use 05-Apr and the post headed -
>
> h4ei934fwp76p5typ68gfdv4pyf402eo07 - [01/43] -
> "h4ei934fwp76p5typ68gfdv4pyf402eo07.par2" yEnc (1/1)
>
> Under the header you will see a link marked 'collection'. Click that.
> Towards the top of the new page you will see Automated post analysis and
> details of the main file in the archives, in this case book 7 of the
> Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
>
> Can't guarantee it will work everytime i.e. with passworded rars but
> nobody would want to touch them anyway.
Thanks mate. It's bloody obvious now that you describe it :-)
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