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Yes, I have a program installed that can handle RAR archive files.
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No, I do not, but I would be willing to install one.
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December 23rd, 2004, 03:09 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
What's the best free RAR extractor?
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December 23rd, 2004, 03:11 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
7-zip is GNU/GPL, so quite free. 
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December 23rd, 2004, 04:47 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
Real life example why rar is better:
Atrocities startrek mod in zip: 21.9 MB
Atrocities startrek mod in rar: 17.1 MB
a 21 % decrease in size, which is 20% less trafic on a site, that can make a difference.
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Atrocities startrek mod as self extracting rar: 17.1 MB (was 40kb larger)
So for size you dont have to let out the self exctracting, so maybe you can offer both, the self extracting for people that dont want to install a rar decompressor, and the normal rarred Version for the people that want, would take up more space, but wouldnt matter much in terms of traffic.
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December 23rd, 2004, 05:56 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
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What's the best free RAR extractor?
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You can get winrar here:
http://rarlabs.com/rar/wrar341.exe
It works the same as winzip with the little startup window after 30 days.
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December 23rd, 2004, 06:37 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
.tar.gz! .tar.bz2! Seriously could we start using .rar? The program fyron pointed at (7-zip) is great for windows and linux has lots ark is one. The .exe Fyron is using now for his stuff doesn't do well in cedega.
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December 23rd, 2004, 09:09 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
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What's the best free RAR extractor?
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You can get winrar here:
http://rarlabs.com/rar/wrar341.exe
It works the same as winzip with the little startup window after 30 days.
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WinRAR I can definitely say is NOT the best RAR extracter. The user interface isn't very good at all.
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December 23rd, 2004, 09:24 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
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WinRAR I can definitely say is NOT the best RAR extracter. The user interface isn't very good at all.
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December 23rd, 2004, 11:01 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
Strange... I always found WinRar's GUI to be vastly superior to WinZip...
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December 23rd, 2004, 11:24 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
I find QuickZip's interface to be superior to both... 
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. |
December 24th, 2004, 12:15 AM
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Re: RAR File Format
Eh? What interface?
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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