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I am always amazed 7zip hasn't supplanted WinRar and the Rar format.
by nextweek2 11y ago
I am always amazed 7zip hasn't supplanted WinRar and the Rar format.
- skrebbel 11y agoWell, on my planet it has.
- JayJee 11y agoYou know people who use WinRAR?
- dfc 11y agoHave you ever downloaded a scene release?
- JayJee 11y agoYou do realise you can decompress .rar using 7zip right?
- DanBC 11y agoBut the scene releases are not using 7zip to create the rars, are they?
- pen2l 11y agoAmong the movers and shakers in the scene, isn't there generally a predilection to use free software over non-free software? E.g. the only time I run across matroska contained movies is when it's released from the scene.
- lmm 11y agoNot really. There's a general predilection for the best software available, especially since they're unconstrained by purchase costs. Often the free program is the best, but not always.
- ce4 11y ago"Best software" - Are you joking? Scene releases use winrar mostly for packing and splitting. Usually null-compression is used.
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- jmnicolas 11y agoYeah it's usually an ISO within multiple RARs within multiple ZIPs. And this is when they don't act playful and use an obscure archive format that can only be extracted with a (paid or free but infected) closed source app. Depending on the platform I'm using I have some code in bash, Powershell and C# to deal with this. Non coders must have a hard time !
- rustynails 11y agoJdownloader automatically extracts archives, no fancy scripts needed. From my observation, most downloads are rar format (95% at a guess), but it doesn't really matter if it's rar or 7z as the differences in resource usage are negligible. The good news is that most archives support free extraction of both formats.
- i336_ 11y agoWhat formats are you referring to? o.o
- jmnicolas 11y agoIt's bin a while since I encountered it, but I remember having to hunt for MagicISO or PowerISO to open several archives that I couldn't find anywhere else.
- Strom 11y agoI and everyone I know locally uses WinRAR, nobody uses 7zip.
- LeoNatan25 11y agoYou don't!?
- deepsun 11y agoIn Russia RAR is still the default format :(
- s_kilk 11y agoSeems to be mostly Russians and warez scene kids still using winrar
- RDeckard 11y agoWhat about Ukrainians?
- jakobdabo 11y agoRAR has some unique built-in characteristics like recovery record (useful when archiving on optical discs, or any other media which can degrade in time) and recovery volumes (which was a life-saver feature in the age of floppy disks).
- digi_owl 11y agoAnother major contributor is likely that with rar you can make a multi-file self-extractor. Seem to recall that before broadband and torrents, many a pirated game was released as a split rar .exe that could fit on floppies and was spread across numerous upload sites. Dump them all in a dir, run the exe, and game on...
- oneweekwonder 11y agoI believe winzip had the same feature of creating a exe zip spanning over multiple files, for using on floppies.
- soylentcola 11y agoI only remember using that feature when zipping something up myself and it would have you keep inserting floppies as needed. I'm sure you could then post images of the floppies for distribution but I never really saw that done. It was always .r00, .r01, etc on usenet.
- digi_owl 11y agoTrue, though i think the making scheme of rar was more helpful. Also, rar compressed various file formats (video and audio specifically) better.
- i336_ 11y ago7z can't do the exe bit I don't think, but it can make split archives of arbitrary size (in bytes).
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- rocky1138 11y agoThis is because, on Windows, you can't double click a 7z file and have it open 7zip. If they fixed that, they'd have a winner.
- e2e8 11y agoIf you have .7z files associated with 7z File Manager, it will open on double click. Is that not the default on installation?
- eco 11y agoIt is the default. It's always worked for me just fine.
- rocky1138 11y agoYou are so lucky. I've installed on every Windows machine I've had for years and have never had it work out of the box. I've got to right-click a .7z and choose open with -> 7zip. I'll take a look at my setup when I get home tonight.
- cratering 11y agoYou can change the associations in the program settings but you have to be in administrator mode, otherwise they don't stick. http://www.7-zip.org/faq.html http://www.7-zip.org/faq.html
- DiThi 11y agoIt doesn't associate on setup. You have to open 7zip, go to options and you see this http://i.imgur.com/12dpE7G.png http://i.imgur.com/12dpE7G.png I usually click "Select all" then unselect ISO. Done. Edit: other person replied it must be opened in Administrator mode. That explains why I didn't have it associated.
- Shorel 11y agoYou double click on the file and Windows shows two 7zip programs as an option. If you choose the wrong one it will not work later. And it will not repeat the dialog box with the options.
- lmm 11y agoThe 7zip program is much less nice-looking. And rar works.
- Grue3 11y agoI haven't seen a RAR in ages.