God I love WinRAR

[johnjbruin]

I use WinRAR all the time. Prefer to use it way more than WinZip.

 

[sandorski]

WinRAR ownz WinZip!

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
and you can still make .zip's if someone else doesnt have winrar.

MIKE

I usually just make the files Self-Extracting for others. It only adds about 1mb to the total filesize and makes Extracting foolproof for Noobs.

 

[skace]

Power Archiver > WinRar > Winzip.

 

[bandana163]

Try UHARC (WinUHA, UHARCGUI...).
ALZ compression can do wonders to almost any file, PPM compression can compress text at an incredible rate.

 

[Schadenfroh]

7-Zip does all the crap winrar and winzip does, plus open source, free, and no adware or bloat.

 

[rh71]

I've stuck with powerarchiver, but anyway...

What are the general rules of thumb for file types and compression ? Which compress the most and which are least able to be compressed ?

 

[Muadib]

I stumbled on WinRar, but I didn't know of it's power. Looks like it time to retire winzip.

 

[Whitecloak]

where can you configure the dictionary size?

 

[Ausm]

Winrar Rox!!:thumbsup:

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Hmmm... 150Gb of pr0n.... could be saving space here.

Nah pr0n does not compress much....and Yes I know from experience 😉

Ausm

 

WinZip always sucked. I never liked RAR much either but it's sort of ubiquitous these days.

 

[alm4rr]

Hrmm
I'd think talkin bout software would be in software forum.......

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech
WinRAR is my compression utility of choice. It has integrated oh-so-well with my Windows XP installation.

Definitely. ZIP and ISO file support, all kinds of compression options, and a recovery record checksum of adjustable size - all at a reasonable price.

i like winrar too, but those compression rates seem a little too high

225 delimited text files

He's compressing text files. Anything like that that is not in the slightest way compressed in its original format is going to compress well. Bitmap files compress well too. Sure you could use JPEG for image files, but WinRAR compresssion is totally lossless.

WinRAR now needs to make an automated backup program - backup certain files every night; right now I use Second Copy 2000 for that. It has a ZIP file option, but it's a bit buggy, and doesn't always finish writing the file (might just be a flaw in Windows' networking though), so I wind up using no compression at all. RARsoft seems to make very nice software - I'd be willing to buy such a backup program (with WinRAR's lovely compression options of course) from them, at a price like WinRAR's.