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What is your favorite compression format?

Mine's definitaly rar :-)

Can't beat RAR by much. 7z is great too, but I like RAR better. Although, I'd have to say that GZipped-Tarball is pretty awesome too. . . So many too decide from. . . Why must I be so indecisive? :-P

I like ZIP. I've been using pkzip and pkunzip since the late 1980's. In 1993 I actually bought my own registered copy of version 2.04g, which became a defacto standard. I used just about every option that it had and never had any problem at all.

Now I also use WinZip when I want to zip files with long filenames. But I hate the idiot user interface. I love using pkzip from the command line or a batch file or even a shell command.

I don't know what RAR is. How great can it be? Will it run for 18 years without any failure, like pkzip?
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I like zip and rar.... pitty I can only pick one..

@ Moneo: It's a higher compression rate than .zip.... Makes for a lil faster transfer of large files... :wink:

Quote:I like ZIP. I've been using pkzip and pkunzip since the late 1980's. In 1993 I actually bought my own registered copy of version 2.04g, which became a defacto standard. I used just about every option that it had and never had any problem at all.

Now I also use WinZip when I want to zip files with long filenames. But I hate the idiot user interface. I love using pkzip from the command line or a batch file or even a shell command.

I don't know what RAR is. How great can it be? Will it run for 18 years without any failure, like pkzip?
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Well RAR compresses files even smaller than .zip, and it can decompress any of the mentioned files in the poll I believe.

I'm definetly a rarman. :wink:

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Well RAR compresses files even smaller than .zip, and it can decompress any of the mentioned files in the poll I believe.

Unless you are compressing extremely large files, like over 500 MB, the reduction in the size of the compressed file is really not a factgor today. It was pertinent in the old days when you put your compressed file onto a diskette.

Regarding the ability to decompress files from other utilities, I personally wouldn't trust this feature. If I compressed with ZIP then I want to decompress with ZIP, to be absolutely certain. And the same goes for compressing/decompressing with other utilities. You're just begging for problems otherwise.

Hey, don't get me wrong, if you're happy with RAR, use it.
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You're only in troulbe if you RAR it to its limit. Same goes for 7zip.

What happens if you compress a RAR, the compress that in a ZIP? :???: .. Double compression? :king:

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