WinRAR - remarkable service
Posted: 10 Apr 2021 12:07
Among the few programs I've ever paid for is WinRAR (Others? The ones I can readly think of? Obviously XY, several versions of IDA Pro, Vern Buergs's "List Enhanced" (sadly not the server version), and something, long ago superseded by VLC, to transcode AVI files to MP4 ones). My rarkey.reg file dates back to "2004-03-17 14:23". I never bought a license for the DOS version (where I used PK(un)ZIP).
However, at the moment I find myself working (on real PC DOS, be it in a VirtualBox VM, where, much to my amazement, I can even run Borland's TD286 protected mode debugger) with my old hitchhike statistics programs (written in TP 3 and TP 6 - even found a bug in a TP6 version dating back to August 2000) and I decided to convert the old ZIP archives to RAR ones using the old 2.50 version of RAR for DOS. Obviously the license file for WinRAR didn't do much for DOS RAR, so I yesterday sent off an email to Eugene Roshal, and would you believe it, this morning there was an email with the required registration code!
Wow!
However, at the moment I find myself working (on real PC DOS, be it in a VirtualBox VM, where, much to my amazement, I can even run Borland's TD286 protected mode debugger) with my old hitchhike statistics programs (written in TP 3 and TP 6 - even found a bug in a TP6 version dating back to August 2000) and I decided to convert the old ZIP archives to RAR ones using the old 2.50 version of RAR for DOS. Obviously the license file for WinRAR didn't do much for DOS RAR, so I yesterday sent off an email to Eugene Roshal, and would you believe it, this morning there was an email with the required registration code!
Wow!