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Why WinRAR?

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-28 22:59

There was a thread on /b/ and I thought the OP made some valid points. Why do we use WinRAR for archiving when every OS has built in zip support. Sure it gets a few percent more compression, but in todays broadband world that's hardly going to matter.

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-28 23:10

Rar is superior.

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-28 23:31

Default Windows zipping is shit.

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-28 23:42

Sure it gets a few percent more compression

It does a bit more than that, mate, and not just percentage-wise either.

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-29 7:34

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If this is true why aren't we using 7zip and the like? I've found that 1>> is fucking wrong. No one uses WinRAR to compress files, unless it's a crack or warez website. In actuality, WinRAR is only used when WinRAR shouldn't be used. RAR is the better ZIP, RAR is not the better industrial-strength protection you seek when transferring 6GB files.

I don't even know where I'm going or what point I was trying to make, but compression as we know it today is a shoddy, messy, wasteful business. Compression utilities need to take some fucking initiative and create smart wizards that sense for the best compression method, then the best compression settings for that method. I blame ZIP, and I sincerely doubt I'm wrong. ZIP is slowly unbecoming the holy standard as more retards learn that they need programs other than a browser to use the internet.

If only an OSS project like 7zip had stepped up in 1998 and said "We need a new solution." Instead, corporations jumped onto shitwave and the world followed.

Oh poor computer, when will they treat you with dignity?

Name: Anonymous 2006-01-29 9:28 (sage)

Why do we use bzip2 when we have gzip

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Name: Anonymous 2011-12-30 1:42

winrar sux for file sharing, it causes alot of false positives from Antivirus software. I use the windows archiver and dont get false positives.

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