Can a .rar file be used to zip a Mac file?

I've got a bunch of .rar files that are supposed to make up one big Mac file, but I've never heard of that being possible..always thought that's only a PC zip format....anyone know otherwise? If so, how do you unzip 'em? thanks

There is one caveat: certain types of ‘legacy’ files, from Mac OS 9 and earlier—those with resource forks—can’t be safely stored in non-Mac-aware archives. Font suitcases, for example, are completely lost (become empty files); 68k-compatible applications are ruined; non-native image formats lose their previews. The only exception of which I am aware is a Zip archive created by OS X’s tool and equivalents, which use a special workaround to save resources and Finder Info in such a way that they can reconstitute the original file structure on extraction. Windows users +et al.+ just see an extra directory in these archives. AFAIK this isn’t available for rar, tar, gzip and other such compression formats—and if implemented by a particular Mac-aware utility, would require that a similar program be used for unpacking the archives.

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