Easier way to extract .SAR and .CAR files with SAPCAR under Windows

Hello Ilian,

A pretty decent approach. Unfortunately there is no GUI as such for SAPCAR.

However there is an issue with this approach if the concerned owner is not the administrator. In that case he won't be able to place the file in system32 most likely.In that case SAPCAR can probably be placed else and the *.bat script be modified.

I sometimes use an alternative approach. Not sure if more convinient than this approach. Place SAPCAR at a particular location and add that to environment variable "PATH" under user variable (even a non-admin can do it).

Then everytime you have to uncar you can change to the path (in command prompt) where the *SAR files are placed and issue SAPCAR -xvf *SAR.

Another better approach that I have thought of based on the idea given by you is that we can  have a permanent folder for storing our *SAR files. Suppose the folder is named E:\CAR (an example) In this folder place SAPCAR.exe and a bat script for uncaring the files. The bat script should be like this:

. Then the command in the script should be like

E:\CAR\sapcar -xvf  *SAR -R DUMP.

Here DUMP is the target folder within E:\CAR i.e E:\CAR\DUMP

E:\CAR will have you *bat script, sapcar binary as well as the *SAR files to be extracted.

The extracted files would be present in DUMP folder. I think you can play around with the bat script and make it more presentable. You can use VB code if you want some sort of GUI and then possibly can add the path of the *bat script to PATH variable or can place it in your shortcuts.

May be I will try to write a VB code for a very simple GUI that just asks for the PATH of f*SAR files and then does the rest of the work for you :-)

Regards.

Ruchit.

It is one time approach which doesn't need any changes to file properties or the enviornment variable "PATH".

Regards.

Ruchit.