 Winrar Or Winzip? |
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 Jan 18 2008, 01:41 AM
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Member [Level 3]  Group: Members Posts: 99 Joined: 30-October 05 Member No.: 13,571  |
I like WinRAR more, it can release more kinds of compressed files.
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Jan 19 2008, 02:03 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 298 Joined: 5-October 07 From: Random Places Member No.: 51,171  myCENT:30.84 |
I personally do not use WinRAR because it is shareware. I do not have enough cash to pay for it. Instead I use something called TugZip which supports quite a few file types. I like it and it is free and open source I believe. It can handle .rar, .7z, and more.
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Jan 20 2008, 11:33 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 19-January 08 Member No.: 56,495 |
Winrar ,I use.
It can unzip yhe zip file,too... so I think it's enough for me. looool... |
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Jan 20 2008, 01:59 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 19-January 08 Member No.: 56,507 |
Definitly it is winrar, becoz there is support for iso,zip,rar, etc files
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Jan 20 2008, 02:27 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 26-August 07 Member No.: 48,866 |
Depends on what you want. If you want high compression, use WinRar (or even 7zip), but if you want to distribute some files to a lot on people, use WinZip, because although not everybosy has WinZip, XP, Vista and some Linux distros natively support Zip files.
Well, there's my two cents... |
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Jan 20 2008, 04:18 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 20-January 08 Member No.: 56,540 |
Winrar is best them Winzip cause the amount of files it suports.. but the crompression power of each other is almost the same. Thats why I like 7zip, it have a very nice compression system.. that analyze everything.. for example.. if u compress 10 identiqual files with winrar.. it will compress all files.. but 7zip will compress 1 and for the rest will make just a mirror, so when you extract all 10 files will be there. And this isn't only for full files.. its work with segments to.. like if you compress 2 almost identiqual files.. 7zip will make a mirror of identiqual segments, thats why is the best one. The only problem is that 7zip generate more damaged files them others, but nothing that you cant fix making an inspection at the end.
About distribution, almost no one have 7zip, but you can make an SFX file when you are compressing.. resolving this litle problem 
This post has been edited by holetz: Jan 20 2008, 04:20 PM |
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Jan 20 2008, 10:08 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 19-January 08 Member No.: 56,513 |
QUOTE(Dooga @ Sep 30 2005, 04:27 AM)  If people don't mind me saying this, but I find that Winzip and Winrar aren't the best decompressors existing. I personally use a very good program called "Power Archiver" and it can use all the files that winrar can use, plus I believe, more than 10 more. (Also includes the HIGH COMPRESSION new 7z extension which can make a 50MB file shrink to 5MB... I'm not sure if that's true though) www.powerarchiver.com You should really check it out. Wow. It's expensive man. |
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Jan 22 2008, 08:47 AM
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Neurotical Squirrel Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 590 Joined: 4-November 04 From: Novi Sad, Vojvodina Member No.: 2,127 |
Well, since I do a lot of uploading, and I'm on ADSL, if I have to upload a big amount of data, I need to compress it... So RAR's aren't really an option... But, I don't use ZIP either... In turn, I use GZIP, it's free, and it compresses better than RAR or ZIP... Plus, since I do upload those files on servers, GZIP is natively supported by Linux, so I don't have to think if I'll be able to uncompress those files when I upload them... Since GZIP is used to compress single file, if I have the need to upload many files, I first put them in a TARBall, then GZIP... Some may see it as an inconvenience, but I see it as quite good compression, and free, at the same time
 I have written a small archiving program for myself, to automatically use TAR and GZIP, and to create my own archives... I have it on my USB, so I can compress and extract files wherever I am, and wherever I need to... And I also use ZLIB, which is a GZIP implementation, to compress data in-memory... Quite good stuff... So, my answer to this question would be neither 
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Jan 22 2008, 05:06 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 11-May 07 From: Smithfield RI Member No.: 42,953 |
Winrar is defiantly a better program than winzip for a couple of reasons. Winrar has the capability to open and created zip files and rar files where winzip cant. Also a nice feature in winrar is that you can encrypt your information and even the file names in rar which cant happen in rar. So basically winzip is a zip only program where winrar is a program that does much more.
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