Graphical RAR program I'm working on

**ryanVickers** · February 2nd, 2008

I have noticed a steady decrease in my overall rating in the last couple of weeks. This has held a rating of over 80% since almost the day it was released, and I am proud of it! If memory serves, I believe it was even in the low 90's for a while, and I am wondering why it has just taken a dip below the 80% line. If you feel this product is not up to your standards, or there is something else causing you to feel negatively towards this project, I would appreciate a comment so I can attempt to remedy the problem.

**slavik** · February 2nd, 2008

Originally Posted by ryanVickers

Funny you should ask... I'm actually working on that, but its not going well; the main reason is the fact that you have to enter the password manually instead of just having it entered as part of the extraction command, and a few other technical reasons...

if you want a true rar password cracker, write some code to look directly into rar files and find out what it does to the password when putting it into the file, I would advise against using rar itself to test your password.

**ryanVickers** · February 2nd, 2008

I know, but that involves decryption, etc etc. and so far a brute force would be the easiest, or so I thought... lol

I continue to accept recommendations for the script, and if you think it needs something, please ask instead of just voting down!!

**nikoPSK** · February 7th, 2008

COOL, how would you make that?

**ryanVickers** · February 7th, 2008

it's bash - a file that is just a collection of commands, and it can store variables etc. I used zenity to popup dialogs to collect information, and then it runs RAR with the desired options

**nikoPSK** · February 7th, 2008

Originally Posted by ryanVickers

it's bash - a file that is just a collection of commands, and it can store variables etc. I used zenity to popup dialogs to collect information, and then it runs RAR with the desired options

very cool...

I give my +1, lemme go thank you...

**papuccino1** · February 7th, 2008

Wow, incredible tool and very very useful Ryan. One suggestion to make a 9.8/10 product a 10/10:

Is there any way you could make a progress bar to show how the compression is going along?

**ryanVickers** · February 7th, 2008

I've been working on that, but it's complicated because RAR actually runs in side of "nice", which is of course in the script, but that doesn't matter. The zenity progress dialog is highly complicated and dysfunctional, but since I'm planning on re-making it in Python and TKinter, in theory this should then become an easy task!