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Old 02-25-2010, 10:56 AM   #48
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Originally Posted by CharlieBird View Post
The previous Astak releases were Zip files, as are firmware releases for BeBook and Jinke. (I checked this with Kaiser's list.) I don't know when Astak changed to RAR but believe it was after the 12/11 release because I installed them all using Unzip Wizard... including the Ukranian LBook release of 10/16.
No, I believe the Jinke/Astak releases have always been RAR. I un-RAR'd and ZIP'd them before adding them to my site, which is why they're in ZIP format there.

I suspect that the reason Jinke releases them in RAR is because they use unix/Linux on their development systems, and the RAR tool is more "freeware/native/common" from that point of view. Just a guess.
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