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It's because since RAR is proprietary and didn't have a corporation friendly way to look inside those archives, so they couldn't be scanned. For users, it was
by 0x457 3y ago
It's because since RAR is proprietary and didn't have a corporation friendly way to look inside those archives, so they couldn't be scanned.
For users, it was not an issue since they don't have to worry about licensing and whatnot.
WinRAR was also a fun target to write your very own crack for it. You could crack it multiple ways a well: remove the dialog and change texts, patch it to think it's licensed or write a keygen.
- whaleofatw2022 3y agoRAR had solid archiving, ZIP didn't. That was HUGE for the emulation scene before 7zip, consider an SNES game: 1. JP version 2. NA version 3. PAL version And possibly 1 or more revisions of each of the above. With RAR the size was often not much more than if a single version was compressed. Not so with ZIP