
Usenet Tools for Mac OS X
Curiously enough, there are "binaries" newsgroups which allow the posting of text-encoded Binary files. As one might expect, the storage requirement for these newsgroups is enormous. Your ISP generally provides access to usenet... and the better ISP's have a reasonable selection of Binaries newsgroups.
Alternatively, you need to sign up with a commercial newsgroup provider. The advantage is you often have a larger selection and less "missing" parts.
Note: Many of these tools are Command-Line only.
Update: There is a new version of WinRar (Beta 3.0) which introduced a new RAR format.
New: Mac OS X Unrar 3.0
'par' was developed as a partial solution for this. Special 'par' files (.par, .p01, p02 etc...) are posted along with the RAR files. For each PAR file you have, you will be able to recreate one of the RAR files that you may be missing.
Download it from Sourceforge.
A GUI version is available here.
You can download my binary from here:
http://homepage.mac.com/anarkhos/.Pictures/cdrdao.tgz
The command is used thusly:
Insert a blank CD, tell the finder to ignore the CD and continue.
type:
sudo ./cdrdao write -device IOCompactDiscServices blah.cue
If run as root cdrdao will use high priority threads to avoid underruns.
If you have a DVD burner you would use "IODVDServices" instead.
If your CD-R isn't known (like mine wasn't) you can select a specific driver.
For example this is in my .tcshrc file:
alias cue sudo /Users/anarkhos/cdr/cdrdao write --device IOCompactDiscServices --driver generic-mmc
thus to burn anything I just type "cue blah.cue"