rar vs others...

[isus]

do you encode a lot in rar? or do you use broader stuff like zip?

(ps if you know of a good rar 'decompressor', lemme know. winrar sucks, and so do most of these others im finding.)

[origin]

I like winrar better than most other compression utilities. It was proven in several tests that rar's have a better compression ratio than the competion, the only thing is that it is a bit slower than others. Winzip is probably one of the worst compression utilies to use it is good just for simple small file compression but once we get to talking about larger file size winrar ownz it. you might want to check out another compression utility to see if it fits ur satisfaction:

Winace (http://www.winace.com/)(.ace file extension fairly good.)

P.S:Keep in mind that most or all of the compressing programs decompress all of the other formats so winzip also can uncompress rar files or ace files and vice versa. So maybe a little trial and error is necessary but when u want fast decompression I would think that winace would do the best job.

l8

[Rickio]

check out 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org/

[DainBramaged]

WinRAR is the way to go. As origin said, it has been proven that it compresses much better than the competition, save for a very small minority of files in which .zip actually compresses a fraction better.

At this point, speed is irrelevant in my opinion. The minute you might save with one program over the other really isn't worth switching away from WinRAR.

[shawners]

I downloaded video games, and it had a 1.5 billion file size compressed into 700 megs or something. IT was an awesome compression program =)

[DeweyBear]

rar of course, using zip can cause you to become the black sheep of the usenet family

[Undying Wizard NHD]

PKzip all the way

[ferrarimodena360]

1 of the biggets reason for using rar is that u are able to extract songs out of an archive even if for some reason u have a failed (icomplete) download

like archive is of 50mb of 10songs 5 mb each and u have downloaded 33mb then u will be able to get 6songs ,

[phalkon30]

I love winrar, since I started using it I haven't gone back to my previous favorite "winzip"

[cpugeniusmv]

winrar is definately my favorite.

there has been some movement in the 7zip project...i haven't had an opportunity to do any extensive testing with it yet though :)

[Rickio]

Not to change the subject, but foobar can play archived music files, zip,rar and 7zip. It is just a little indication that 7zip is gaining some larger acceptance.
It's handy to use foobar and I actually was able to retrieve a corrupted music file with it. Got a crc error and it would not extract. Put it in foobar and it played the song and whatever bits were missing were not even noticeable, so I extracted it with foobar.

[DainBramaged]

7zip is gaining larger acceptance...

...or the makers of foobar are being very complete. Two different things, at least in my book.

[Rickio]

7zip is gaining larger acceptance...

...or the makers of foobar are being very complete. Two different things, at least in my book.

uh okie dokie

[Kevin06906]

Zip,

I don't know what you guys are talking about, so i chose .zip files because i open them more often.

[LordNIkon]

do you encode a lot in rar? or do you use broader stuff like zip?

(ps if you know of a good rar 'decompressor', lemme know. winrar sucks, and so do most of these others im finding.)

How can WinRAR Suck?? It is the best Compression software out there by far. All the zips I download(after Virus Scanning) I quickly convert to Self extracting RAR files.

7zip is an excellent program as well. I like its support for
*.bz2" files.

[phalkon30]

Winrar will open .bz2 files, I use it to open DC++ file lists every once in a while.

[CCSDUDE]

Rar all the way... zip files are bloody annoying.

Besides I like to name my shit leet... Fuck.j00.crackz.warez.rar just seems way cooler then Fuck.j00.crackz.warez.zip

Doesn't it?

[phalkon30]

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[Malicious Intent]

WinRAR seems really slow. What the hell does it need all that processing power for so long for? I'm no programmer, but there must be a better way.

WB CCSDUDE - Havn't seen you in ages

[isus]

lordnikon:
i think winrar sucks bc i personally never need to compress anything, so therefore i don't need all the crap in winzip or winrar to compress files. i only need to decompress some things, so i use stuffit expander bc that is pretty broad in it's decompression options...

in fact... *checks aladdin website* hey version 8 has rar decompression. awesome.

o, and plus, you need a serial or hack or crack or whatever for winrar... it's ridiculous. i hate all the progs that should be free that make you pay...

[Wolfie]

Used to like winzip but like winrar better now.

[LordNIkon]

@phalkon30: thanks I forgot about that.
@Malicious Intent: I usually have it compress in the background. so I can forget about it till it is done.
@Isus:Im glad StuffIt Expander works for you. Serial, Cracks and Keygens aren't that hard to find if you need them (courtesy of P2P networks).

[isus]

i don't need a key for expander... it's free. it asks for one, but that's to enable the compression junk...

[RJ5500]

I use winrar all the time. My processor is fast enough to compress about any mid sized .rar file is a relatively short amount of time.

Rar has many advantages over .zip such as creating a "solid" archive and adding a recovery record/authenticity verification to files for added security.

[Nothingface5384]

i like ultimate zip..seems like it has one of the best compressions and supports the most archives
edit rickio that foobar/7zip sh!t u mentioned sounded cool....i'm surprized winace wasnt an option..as i thought winzp winwar and winace are the big 3

[nasrules]

I like WinRAR - I've used numerous (WinZip and PowerArchiver among others). That 7-Zip looks pretty cool...trying it now...

[phalkon30]

For anybody that uses winrar... a new beta is out. 3.20 beta 2

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/2/2-7.shtml

[bmc152003]

i use filzip http://www.filzip.com/ it works great and its free

[baghdad_steve15]

I use Winrar, it opens almost every type of compressed files.

[WRFan]

winace is the best, much better than winrar. but winrar is emglish, so all the people are using it, esp. the americans. if winace were an english programme, and not created by germans then people would finally recognise its superiority and switch from winrar to winace. no need to say winzip is outdated crap, lacking features and bad compression ratio.

[crackerjacker]

man use whatever program that works good for you.
personally i love winrar and i am also using some other all in one zip utility.

the point is if you honestly want something that is known and works outstanding use winrar or whatever program you want to.

common sense dictates that whatever works for you is the best thing in the world.
so use what u use best.

woot
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