RAR vs ZIP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo?
Yes. Just out of curiousity, did these submissions also exhibit a... creative approach to grammar, and look as though punctuation had been added afterwards, while the author was busy practicing his pogo-sticking? ;)
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
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Amen! A few informal polls here found the story of Rarism is a story of denial and crazed-eye-preaching. WinZip has the better "use experience", and - as someone posted here recently - 7zip has the way better compression. WinZips recent desire for mo'money has hurt a quasi-standardness, but those Raristas have been lurking in the dark all the time. At work it's mostly asian customers It seems a distributor even repackages zip files we send as rar before they go further. It's just weird. Hint: WinZip 10 supports extracting RAR. Which makes it worth the money, 'cause you can spend the money on not WinRAR.
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I hate the WinRar interface. X| Besides, Rar is not as ubiquitous as Zip.
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
In all my recent XP installs, I've stopped installing WinZip, since the builtin ZIP-support of XP is enough as I see it. Oh, and I hate RAR.
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Rar has always been way way cooler than zip. Better compression, solid archives, better spanning, zip just isn't in the same league. I never ever understood why zip files beat out both Rar and Arj archives. Winzip was the massive nail in the coffin for me. Horrid user interface, block whenever you click on a window to move it. Blechy! Rar Rar, Hes our man! If he can't do it, No one ... will. - Phil
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Rar has always been way way cooler than zip. Better compression, solid archives, better spanning, zip just isn't in the same league. I never ever understood why zip files beat out both Rar and Arj archives. Winzip was the massive nail in the coffin for me. Horrid user interface, block whenever you click on a window to move it. Blechy! Rar Rar, Hes our man! If he can't do it, No one ... will. - Phil
Many software supports RAR and ZIP. UltimateZip supports both Zip and Rar. I have a brief writeup over here on UltimateZip: http://lavanyadeepak.blogspot.com/2007/01/ultimatezip-ultimate-desktop-utility.html[^]
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Many software supports RAR and ZIP. UltimateZip supports both Zip and Rar. I have a brief writeup over here on UltimateZip: http://lavanyadeepak.blogspot.com/2007/01/ultimatezip-ultimate-desktop-utility.html[^]
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I installed WinRar and it set itself as default for compreseeion. I'm too lazy to go and change that now, so if you recieve a rar from me then you know I have a good reason.
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I've always found WinRAR to give better compression than WinZip 9 (although I haven't tried the new compression in WZ9 for compatibility reasons). RAR is popular in Europe, I'd actually never heard of it until I started exchanging files with my friend in Denmark.
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It's 7-Zip for me all the way - I even registered. After I got used to the UI I really started to appreciate how easy and comprehensive it is. Not to mention that the 7z file is smaller.
Are all the 7-zip compression choices compatible with Winzip?
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
For me winRar is the best for compressing code and project, winZip has corrupted more than a file even WinAce with it's great compression did it. I never encountered any corrupted files in my backups with WinRar. especially when they contain massive amounts of files and folders
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Personally I like rar much, much better then winzip... don't you??
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
RAR has Unicode file support, AFAIK WinZip does not, or at least didn't in the past. That's probably why alot of non-English countries use RAR over ZIP.
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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In all my recent XP installs, I've stopped installing WinZip, since the builtin ZIP-support of XP is enough as I see it. Oh, and I hate RAR.
Johann Gerell wrote:
In all my recent XP installs, I've stopped installing WinZip, since the builtin ZIP-support of XP is enough as I see it.
You expectations are very low!
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Simon Hofverberg wrote:
I stuck with IZArc[^]. I have hardly noticed it since I installed it, it just works.
The best one can say about a tool. It's also my installed (Un-)Zipper.
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Suddenly every second submission I'm seeing is packed full of RAR nastiness. Has someone, somewhere decided that WinRAR is way, way cooler than Winzip and I didn't get the memo? Or is there a university somewhere preaching zip bad, rar good? It's just weird.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Rar is the best quality archiving software!!! And it will definitely be most popular than ZIP... I use only WinRAR because it can work with zip-archives... For historical note: RAR initially was made by Eugene Roshal in Russia in South Ural State University...