Re: Cannot open rar archives

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <sav bcs zp ua>]

Andrew Borodin wrote:
>   Hi!
>
>   When I try enter into rar archives, the error message "/usr/share/mc/extfs/urar: rar: command not found"
> is shown. It's true - I don't have rar program in my Linux. But I have
> unrar. I don't need to create or modify rar archives, just unpack only.
>
>   IMHO, it is not very well when the free program (mc) requires
> proprietary program (rar) by default. The simple workaround to allow mc
> enter into rar archives is install unrar and do
>
>   $ cd /usr/bin && ln -s unrar rar

Can you test attached patch?
You will have same problem if unrar is function or alias, but in your 
case it must help.

--
Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov

--- vfs/extfs/urar.in~  Fri Jan 17 13:30:13 2003
+++ vfs/extfs/urar.in   Fri Jan 17 14:03:38 2003
@@ -7,15 +7,25 @@
 # beta version 2.0
 #
 RAR=rar
-UNRAR=unrar # Prefer unrar (freeware)
-#
+UNRAR=$RAR
 # NOTE: rar ver 2.0 by Eugene Roshal
 # ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack
 #
 
-if ! unrar >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    UNRAR=$RAR
-fi
+# Prefer unrar (freeware)
+# unrar without parameters returns undocumented value
+as_save_IFS="$IFS"; IFS=:
+for i in $PATH; do
+    IFS="$as_save_IFS"
+    : ${i:-.}
+    if test -x $i/unrar -a -f $i/unrar; then
+       UNRAR=$i/unrar
+       break
+    fi
+done
+
+unset as_save_IFS
+unset i
 
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