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what do i need to open .rar files?

Postby Matt on Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:11 pm

anyone know? help is appreciated.
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Postby Dogg on Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:12 pm

Winrar? :lol:
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Postby The X on Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:20 pm

yep, you can download winrar from download.com or some site similar to that....
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Postby Matt on Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:00 pm

thx, much appreciated.
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Postby alexboom on Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:07 pm

don't use Winrar as it's shareware, you'd better use Izarc, which is freeware and supports a lot of formats (including zip)

It's better free than cracked :P
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Postby Null17 on Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:51 pm

rarlabs.com
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Postby FendeR` on Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:05 am

You can still use WinRAR for as long as you want without buying it, and it also supports zip files and others.
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Postby cyanide on Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:48 am

FendeR` wrote:You can still use WinRAR for as long as you want without buying it, and it also supports zip files and others.


Yup, and the evaluation pop ups aren't that annoying at all.
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Postby FendeR` on Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:24 am

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Postby Doobie on Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:25 am

wasnt it winzip before???
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Postby Dogg on Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:42 am

DoobieKnicks wrote:wasnt it winzip before???

i think no, still there is winrar and winzip, two different programs
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Postby Username123 on Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:49 am

Winrar--- For .Rar files/.Zip files
Winzip--- For .Zip files
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Postby Cameron on Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:34 pm

7Zip can open pretty much anything... and it has insane compression rates.
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Postby Mikki on Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:49 pm

Cammo wrote:7Zip can open pretty much anything... and it has insane compression rates.


Can you give me an example?

And not all people have it. :?
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Postby Cameron on Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:33 am

7-zip.org wrote:Compression ratio

Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. We compared 7-Zip with some of the leading archivers: WinRAR 3.10, WinAce 2.3, CABARC 1.0, PKZIP 2.50.

FILE SET: The GIMP 1.2.4 for Windows after full installation (127 subfolders, 1304 files totaling 27,128,826 bytes). The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It can be downloaded from www.gimp.org.

Archiver Compressed size Ratio
7-Zip (7z format) 5445402 100%
WinRAR 3.10 6004155 110%
WinAce 2.3 6242424 115%
CABARC 1.0 6455327 119%
7-Zip (zip format) 9461621 174%
PKZIP 2.50 9842800 181%

Usually 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than other zip compatible programs.


I've had nothing but excellent results with it :)
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Postby cyanide on Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:23 am

So, instead of .zip, it's .7z for best compression results? Wouldn't that require a .7z format compatibility on another person's machine if you were to transfer the file?
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Postby Cameron on Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:25 am

Yeah, just like any compression type, the other person needs a program to open it. Of course, it can always create .exe versions as well, with a bit less compression.
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