On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:06:12 +0000, DDMD wrote:
> I really think people posting RAR and PAR files is good for the group.
> Keeps things neater, giving us less to look through for what we want.
> But moreso than that, it keeps collections properly catalogued, and
> stops the problems with badly named files (mostly older sets, with
> filenames that don't represent the set number) and the hassle of trying
> to work out which files are from which set.
>
> Now that the links have been posted for MAC based RAR programs,
> hopefully it will continue and even expand to be used by all the
> posters, over time. :D
Anybody using Linux should know about the command line program [unrar],
Command line programs can be rather awful (a [man] page is *not* a
tutorial!), but [unrar] is really simple. Let's say you have
cherish.part1.rar
cherish.part2.rar
cherish.part3.rar
etc.
as well as the PAR2 files.
The unrar command is just
> unrar e cherish.part1.rar
Although you told it to extract only Part1, it automagically finds all
parts, extracts them, and joins them. (That probably requires the little
[par2] file, iirc).
(If a filename has a space, you do need to type a backslash [\] before
the space: )
If the first file is
Nadine Jansen.avi.part01.rar.
you need to type that as
Nadine\ Jansen.avi.part01.rar.
As usual with a command line, you have to be precisely correct in every
detail of the command, or else it won't work. Most likely to fail, I'd
say, is a little mistake in typing the filename.
=+=+=
Sometimes, I'll see a RAR collection with its PAR2 files, but no sample.
no clue as to whether I'd want to download what can be sometimes more
than 100 MB. (I haven't sprung for FiOS, yet!)
It would be nice to offer a thumbnail page for every RAR file collection
that isn't known to everybody. For instance, in a.b.p.e.b.l, where I
check frequently, darn' near everybody knows Milena Velba, for instance,
but, there's one possibly-interesting collection here, posted the past
week or so, with no clue as to content. I didn't recognize the model's
name. Not complaining, just hoping to make things a bit better.
Of course, this means extra work (unless you do scripting, something MS
Windows seems pretty pathetic at), getting more good software, and adding
another part of the procedure for preparing a good post.
=+=+=
Good grief! The amount of "traffic" on this n/g is amazing; it looks like
a terabyte every month.
=+=+=
Was hoping for Boobabe and/or Amber Dawn; didn't get a lot of headers,
though.
=+=+=
Probably most subscribers here know how to download all the free images
for any given model, not just those for the three most-recent sets. Turns
out that you can look at a current image, then edit its URL (Web address)
so the set(?) number is one from the past that looks interesting. Fire
away, and if you're looking for about the first five or so, there you
are. Occasionally there are 20 or so freebies, but SC might get unhappy
if you ask for too many that it can't send you. A few hours' work got me
a few hundred freebies of Boobabe,
My best to all,
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