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What I can remember from the 90s in Sweden the most common archive formats for spanning multiple 3 1/2 inch floppies was ARJ or RAR. ZIP existed but was uncommo
by tored 5y ago
What I can remember from the 90s in Sweden the most common archive formats for spanning multiple 3 1/2 inch floppies was ARJ or RAR. ZIP existed but was uncommon in comparison.
I think it wasn’t so much about the qualities about the zip format itself rather that WinZip software wasn’t as good compared to WinRAR. ARJ was command line, at least that is how I used it, it was well documented and easy to use.
It may have been that the zip format was more common in the DOS 5 1/4 inch floppy days because zip (1989) existed prior to both both ARJ (1992) and RAR (1993)
- inglor_cz 5y agoSo was in Czechia during the DOS times. ARJ was almost synonymous with compression. Some people used RAR. The advent of Windows was when ZIP started to push them out.