RAR and ZIP

for storage and compressoion, which one is best?

 

ok, thank you, just wanted to ask before i compressed something...

 

Ever since Ive discovered rar back in the day, ive never used anything else

 

and when did u discover rar?

 

ooo too long to remeber at least 3 years ago, when i started to download stuff off the net

 

LMAO, at least 3 weeks......

 

^ what have you been using before that!!! I could not have lived without winrar

 

i dont get it, how come one time i did a compression into RAR and it turned a 7 GB file into a 5 but sometimes, it only does a couple MB...

 

i prefer rar

 

Totally depends on the data, some data can be compressed a lot due to the way the algorythms work in the program, some not, just luck i guess -huh

 

Rar for sure... Even when you compress and stuff, it's much faster (you can set the mode) and rar support .zip files too -cool2

 

rar > zip.

 

winzip.....more use friendly

 

back in the dos days we used ARJ files to split into 1.2 megs so they'd fit onto the floppies! i rememeber installing windows 3.1 and then windows 95 with 15-25 floppy disks *laugh!

to compress or do stuff we had to type long commands like a programmer would without being one "-ar +b +compress +r +c 1.2 -a +24 c:\game\c&c\ a:\c&cdisk1.arj" *or something like that*

god the dos commands were long and hard to rememer lol... i was sad to see windows taking dos away but now i realize what a bitch it was! =P