Are you using WinRAR (for compressing files)?

peterchen

and which country are you in? Our asian customers seem to be crazy about it, but almost noone else does. (Our chinese distributor even asked if we could completely switch to RAR so they don't have to repackage archive :omg: )

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Dario Solera

I use it on my own quite often because it has a little better compression ratio than WinZip, but for "public" archives I go for Zip. Also, Rar is way slower especially at compressing. I'm from Italy, BTW.

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One of our Indian consultants seemed fond of it. Apart from that, i don't usually use it.

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Nish Nishant

Not trying to insinuate that piracy is rampant in Asia, but rar is the most preferred format for warez sites. That may be one reason rar files are so popular in some parts of Asia.

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Steve McLenithan

peterchen wrote:

ot trying to insinuate that piracy is rampant in Asia, but rar is the most preferred format for warez sites. That may be one reason rar files are so popular in some parts of Asia. Reg

I use 7z and rar more often than zip.

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I use RAR almost exclusively for personal use. while there are formats even better than RAR (rar > zip), RAR is popular enough to be a practical replacement for zip. Oh and I think the UI for 7zip sucked when I tried it. oh I'm in Canada -- modified at 16:44 Wednesday 29th November, 2006

Dan Neely

Almost never. Zip has overwelming penetration, winRAR is almost never seen outside of powerusers machines. If for some reason I need better compression, 7zip is (IIRC still) the reigning king in that front.

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Ray Hayes

I use it to transfer archives through our corporate firewall. I encrypt the message, turn on the "encrypt filenames" so the firewall doesn't strip the archive because it contains restricted file-types (EXE, BAT, CMD, PIF, etc) and then phone the customer and tell them the password. Often the company I'm contacting have similar conditions, after a couple of formal* transfers failing, we almost always send them using RAR. * our company policy is to encrypt the files in a zip (passworded obviously) and then zip it a second-time... the blocked types are permitted within the inner-Zip. Takes too long, RAR works in a couple of clicks and is easier at the otherside too! ;-)

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James Brown

I think Rar supports Unicode filenames, but Winzip may not have in the past, that is why it is popular with non-english markets..?

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Jeremy Falcon

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

That may be one reason rar files are so popular in some parts of Asia.

And they have a high piracy rate. Go figure.

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Phillip Martin

Australia, and yep I use it all the time. I'm helping construct an automated build and test farm, and I'm using WinRar to do all the compression of files when moving things around. Solid RAR self extracting archives are great when trying to get reliable test kits to testers. Changed our zip files from 100 meg to 60. - Phil

Jeremy Falcon

I tend to use WinZip and for a reason, the format is well supported. Sure, RAR is better but my HDD isn't so small that saving 3k on 200MB worth of files is worth me not potentially being unable to recover archived data from somebody else's PC if mine crashes and burns. Also, the GUI for WinRAR and 7-zip is worse than WinZip IMO.

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Me! Me! From Brazil! Remember: Winzip bad! WinRAR good!

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peterchen

Steve McLenithan wrote:

peterchen wrote: ot trying to insinuate that piracy is rampant in Asia, but rar is the most preferred format for warez sites. That may be one reason rar files are so popular in some parts of Asia.

no I didn't :) the hamsters need a good spanking again.

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Vikram A Punathambekar

Nope. I use Winzip exclusively.

peterchen wrote:

and which country are you in? Our asian customers seem to be crazy about it

Asia is a big continent. ;) Care to elaborate where in Asia your users are?

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vijay_aroli

Clickok wrote:

Remember: Winzip bad! WinRAR good!

No. i think its this way, WinZip is Good, but WinRar is Better

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peterchen

Admitted :) mostly China, Japan, a bit of Korea. Biggest is CHina (of course :()

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Marcin Gil

Nope. I'm totally going with 7zip. Great compression, free engine, LGPL. If I'm sending something to other countries - zip is the way to go (supported in 7zip).

Mike Dimmick

In the UK. We use ZIP virtually exclusively. Anyone who has Windows XP or Server 2003 (or later) has the capability to unzip a ZIP file. Since we're almost exclusively a Windows-oriented ISV/VAR, a huge proportion of our clients can therefore work with it with no extra software required. We still use WinZip because it's generally nicer to use than the compressed folders implementation in Windows. Anyone know if they've sorted out the unzip speed in Windows Vista RTM? Unzipping the WiX sources zip file took, I kid not, upwards of 10 minutes using the compressed folders implementation in one 'release candidate'. WinZip did it so quickly it didn't even bring up the UI.

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