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Oh WinRAR. Before my time ended with Windows 10-12 years ago, this was one of the first programs that I install on a new Windows setup. Feature wise, I haven't
by dingi 3y ago
Oh WinRAR. Before my time ended with Windows 10-12 years ago, this was one of the first programs that I install on a new Windows setup. Feature wise, I haven't seen any tool beat WinRAR. Locking, splitting, recovery support, And my favorite, SFX archives (msi file equivalent). Creating an installation program was dead easy. And they were and still are cool enough to give a perpetual free trial in exchange for a few nagging screens.
- Frost1x 3y ago>Feature wise, I haven't seen any tool beat WinRAR. Locking, splitting, recovery support, And my favorite, SFX archives (msi file equivalent). Creating an installation program was dead easy. Doesn't 7zip do all of this (and quite a bit more)?
- rawgabbit 3y agoI don't know about today. But WinRAR could handle very large files without issue. It would automatically breakup a huge file into a series of smaller compressed files. 7zip AFAIK struggled with larger files. I don't know if things have improved or not.
- kibibu 3y agoThat was my first encounter with RAR in the dos days - multiple volume archives, with each 1.44 filled to the brim.
- technion 3y agoFile sharing sites where you would download 13 .rar files and get yourself a .zip through to .z12 from the set.
- nijave 3y agoNot sure what's considered large but I've created 50-150GiB (after compression) encrypted archives with 7zip just fine
- rawgabbit 3y agoThis was years ago when I had database backup files to be SFTP from New York data center to California. The backups were half a terabyte or more. It was quite an ordeal back then.
- dingi 3y agoIndeed it might. It's been more than decade since I last used them.
- fomine3 3y agono recovery record on 7z