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WinRAR 7.10 Beta 1 released
- ksec 2y agoIn the good old days, we need RAR so we could split the file into multiple floppy disk, now simply known as the Save Icon. We also prefer it over zip simply due to better compression ratio. I wonder do we still need these trade offs or we could simply go back to Zip or other self extracting compression format. I don't think RAR is even natively supported on Mac.
- atoav 2y ago7zip is the solution on Windows that works together with Keka on Mac. Keka also allows splitting, which can be useful as well.
- o11c 2y ago.rar should be avoided since support in open-source extractors is rare (to my knowledge, the sole implementation comes from The-Unarchiver, `unar`). .7z is usually the way to go if not doing something fancy like casync.
- joecool1029 2y agoFor compressing, but for uncompressing you can literally build unrar from source if you want, here's the source: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-7.1.1.tar.gz https://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-7.1.1.tar.gz I do want to point out that for transmitting compresed files 7z is fine, but as a longer term backup format rar has a lot of functionality that makes it convenient (built in verification, parity generation/repair, support for all the extended filesystem attributes)
- o11c 2y agoThat's not open source, only public source, which is a major limitation.
- joecool1029 2y agoIt's open source. Here's the license: https://github.com/pmachapman/unrar/blob/master/license.txt https://github.com/pmachapman/unrar/blob/master/license.txt (There is one single restriction added that you are not allowed to create a rar archiver with it, only a tool to handle existing rar files)
- o11c 2y agoOther than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? A single restriction is enough to ruin everything.
- tommica 2y agoI've seen "arrow over cloud" icon as a save icon in one of the web apps we use, and I was deeply offended :( for so long it has been the floppy disk icon
- cryptos 2y agoSince RAR and 7-zip is supported by Windows out of the box these days, I can not think of much scenarios where you would benefit from WinRAR in a way you'd be willing to spend money for. https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-11-finally-adds-support-for-rar-7-zip-and-5-other-file-archives https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-11-finally-adds-support-f...