What actually happens when you attempt to open then would have been valuable information. However, when you down load MacRar is arrives in the form of a compressed file (.sit) (MacRar 2.5 f.sit)
Your machine, assuming you are using Safari, should have told you that this download contains a program.
Once downloaded, go to wherever it was downloaded to, and you have full control over that, and double click it. If the system says that it does not know what to do with it, then it is highly likely that you do not have Stuffit Expander installed.
This is FREE from http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/index.html
Download the FREE version, you don't need anything else, and see how you get on.
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I'm sure I'm just being stupid but I ust downloaded MacRar and MacPar duluxe and I can't open them, do I need a special launcher or something? I have a Powerbook G4 with ox version 10.4.7.
any ideas?
thanks.

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