format not supported?

[Julian Field]

You are using Sophos, which currently does not support RAR version 3. I
believe they are intending to add support for it in a future release. You
can choose whether to allow these archives through using the "Allowed
Sophos Error Messages" option.

At 19:41 20/03/2003, you wrote:
>I noticed some rar archives could not be processed with the following
>error report:
>
>     Report: Could not check
> ./h2IFZvpD027967/nbi.rar/NBI\Berkhout\hist.txt (format not supported)
>Could not check ./h2IFZvpD027967/nbi.rar/NBI\Berkhout\spot4.hr3.bmp
>(format not supported)
>Could not check ./h2IFZvpD027967/nbi.rar/NBI\Berkhout\spot4.nbi3.bmp
>(format not supported)
>etc.
>
>apparently MailScanner doesn't need an external unrar program, but when
>i downloaded one to test the archive myself i found that the
>2.x version had a problem where the 3.1 version succeeded:
>
>[super at sukke h2H8QbvF028301]# unrar t aliens.rar
>UNRAR 3.10 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2002 Eugene Roshal
>
>Testing archive aliens.rar
>
>Testing     ALIENS.BMP                                                OK
>All OK
>
>[super at sukke h2H8QbvF028301]# unrar t aliens.rar
>UNRAR 2.71 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2000 Eugene Roshal
>
>
>Testing archive aliens.rar
>
>Unknown method in ALIENS.BMP
>No files to extract
>
>Ewald...
>
>--
>Ewald Beekman, Security Engineer, Academic Medical Center,
>dept. ADB/ICT Computer & Network Services, The Netherlands
>## Your mind-mint is:
>No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are
>really worth the attending.
>                 -- Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"

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