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Re: RAR File Format

I find QuickZip's interface to be superior to both... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I'm thinking of moving to the open source 7zip in the future, though, simply because it's part of the open source movement. Haven't actually tried it yet.

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Well, I haven't used RAR before but you guys convinced me to start using it. Sounds like it's a lot better than zip... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Eh? What interface? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

In both cases its just a window where you drop files you want compressed into the archive you just opened with a double-click.
IMO, wizards are silly, and I've never used the buttons/menus.:P

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The archive opens, however WinRAR has to me a silly extraction interface. Mostly is annoys me that I have to select my SE4 extract directory manually each time..winzip just automaticlly slaps the files into the same directory unless I tell it otherwise. And it doesn't extact only one file in the archive if I click on a file..

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Click and drag is where its at http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Implied extraction location.

Extracting the whole thing? I've never noticed that except in the case of an executable, such as a setup.exe where it will need everything unzipped to the temp folder.
If it did extract them all all the time, I'm sure I would have run out of disk space on drive C a lot more than I remember.

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I've been using IZArc for sometime. Easy interface. Works w/ just about any format. IT'S FREE!

http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/

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Imperator Fyron said:

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Gandalf Parker said:
I know that its difficult to word a poll in an unbiased manner but sheeeesh.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
"I am unwilling or unable"? If the poll just said rar, zip, gz, exe, or installer.. and had no other words to give any clues.. then I would probably have chosen zip.

I guess if my only choices were between RAR or EXE then I would choose rar for SEIV mods.

Zip was never an option... There was no bias. This was never meant as a general format poll; it was only meant to determine if there is any need to continue adding the self-extracting modules. I may not have made that entirely clear...

Ahhh I had the impression that it was seeking a general consensus of all of the modders and download sites. That it was a personal question wasnt clear.

There are obvious pros and cons I guess. RAR's give a time-download boost for a "but you must first download and install" instruction. EXE's give less personal control on the install but can be more helpful for automating where things should go and a level of newbie friendliness. Also EXE's involve an extra layer of trust on the part of the user.

Personally I have a RAR extractor. But then I have a couple dozen different format extractors and Im always a slight bit irritated when Im told to go get another.

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After using Win RAR I have never gone back to anything else

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WinR is a great program. Cheap to. Fyron turned me onto it a year or so ago and I to have never looked back.

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Ok... This thread isn't meant to tout WinRar, it is only to see if people need self extracting archives. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif And it seems as if SFX is not needed by 26/28 people...