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| quote: | Originally posted by liquidxxd
winrar - wtf, just zip it up |
It wouldn't exist without a purpose. RAR (which stands for the Russian ARchiver) achieves somewhat better compression than ZIP in somewhat worse time. Anyway, I tend to use WinRAR because I like the way it works, and it can handle pretty much any compressed format thrown at it. And as far as I remember, it always used to be better for multi-disk spanning archives too... Oh and it's self-extraction facility was always better than WinZIP's too.
Most people who aren't fully savvy with using computers never bother to look past the software they already use (or gets there first) to see if there are better alternatives. ZIP is obviously more widespread than RAR, but doesn't mean it's the best technology.. Same applies with other technologies, i.e. MP3 vs OGG, Win vs. *nix, Mozilla vs. IE etc. etc. etc.
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