RARiX 2.0 from Marklar

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RARiX -2
bring original rar technology in Aqua
fully acqualicious. fully os x like!

The state of art
About one year ago Apple has dropped StuffIt technology as main archiving technology (in fact, since Mac OS X 10.4 a default installation does not contains StuffIt Expander anymore). Instead of it Apple was moved to a free/more standard technology called Zip. Zip does not offer an high compression level but it maintain fully Windows compatibility.

But, however, a lot of Windows users don't use Zip in order to prefer other compression technology. Probability the most advanced compression/archiviation technology is RAR. RAR was created by Alexander Roshal from RARLabs and it's available on Windows with a good front end called WinRAR.

Unfortunatly on Mac OS X (and other Unix likes systems) there is not any GUI front-end but only a command line version.... and, in fact, a terminal version it's not the best solution. Well, I'm proud to announce the release of RARiX 2.

What's RARiX 2?
RARiX is a full featured Objective-C wrapper around RAR library made by Alexander Roshal of RAR Labs. RAR is a powerfull compression library used under Windows systems. It's offer an high compression ratio and in most of cases it's better than StuffItX engine and other similar libraries (as like ACE, Zip, Gz).

Unfortunatly RAR is available on Mac OS X (and other Unix like systems) only in command line version and it's pretty difficult to use it without a good computer knownledge. RARiX fill this gap. It's bring to Mac OS X an easy-to-use, easy-to-implement powerfull RAR library that you can use in your projects or in every-day life.

Ok ok, but I've have just a RAR exec in my /usr/bin directory
RARiX was made around RAR v.3.51 library. While I'm pretty sure that standard default output and switches still remain the same between various minor upgrades, a good thing to do is to replace your existing RAR library with the "native" RARiX rar library.

Is it free?
Both RAR library and RARiX is not free. In fact you are installing an evaluation version rar library (there is not any particular limitation, but you should to register it) A single user license price is $29.90.
RARiX license costs $10.0 for a single license code and $15 if you want to use it into a commercial application.

RARiX Docs
RARiX is pretty simple to use. In fact you need to 2 lines of objc code to make a .rar archive. However there is not a 'final' manual and you should to read the documentation accomplished with each RARiX class. You can also see one of the included examples.

DOWNLOAD NOW

RARiX 2.0.1 beta 1 (1.3Mb)
It contains RARiX framework, a preference pane control, classes docs and a drop compression/expander (plus it's source code)

DONATE NOW

RARiX basically is free. But I've spent more hours to develop and test it. If you use it please consider to make a donation to me via my Kagi Account.
Basic offer is $10.

If you found a bug in RARiX don't esitate to contact me at bugs.rarix@gm-ail.com (without -).