RAR Comment

[Serhiy]

PA doesn’t read RAR Comments…

[davidsplash]

unrar.dll has limitations

[Serhiy]

UnRAR.DLL supports Comments!!!

[Serhiy]

@NTFS:

UnRAR.DLL supports Comments!!!

I asked Eugene Roshal about this. And he confirmed…

[davidsplash]

there are limitations to the unrar.dll ans powerarchiver at the vmoment so hold on the aurthors are working on it

[Randy_Bell]

I hope that this feature will be implemented soon. I have for longtime wished that RAR comments would be displayed. I had even tried unsuccessfully to contact PA-Support via email and ask for this feature to be implemented. I’m glad that others have noiticed this little “flaw”. Why do I think this is important? Well, for me, I often receive new malware samples from my friends which of course are compressed and encrypted for protection. {These are often the latest samples which I need to test and then submit to my preferred AV Vendor, Symantec}. Often the samples come in .RAR format along with a comment which contains the password. If I open them in WinRAR on this my main PC, I have no problem seeing the comment. But if I open them on, say, my son’s PC which only has PowerArchiver (PA), I cannot see the comment and have to guess the password. Doesn’t sound like a major inconvenience I know, but really, since WinRAR can display the comment just fine, I don’t see why PA could not also display this for the sake of convenience, and for the sake of having the full functionality that WinRAR offers. Please do implement this feature ASAP. Thanks …

[Randy_Bell]

Giving this a shameless ^BUMP^ …
Seriously I do think this one important!

[klumy]

me, too

[spwolf]

Last we checked, comments were not supported in unrar.dll, we will check it again for 9.5…

[Serhiy]

Current version of unrar.dll supports reading comments !

Eugene Roshal (RAR developer) wrote:

Function RAROpenArchive,
structure RAROpenArchiveData,
field CmtBuf

Please read unrardll.txt for more information… (located in the unrardll archive)