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Can someone explain why you would ever want to compress a file into .rar?
by philipwhiuk 1y ago
Can someone explain why you would ever want to compress a file into .rar?
- exhilaration 1y agoI bet it's Usenet users. WinRAR can split large files into chunks that are uploaded as separate Usenet messages.
- JackeJR 1y agoAnd also have parity built in for file recovery. The alternative will be to use par2 to create parity files.
- qingcharles 1y agoThe parity files are the killer feature for me. Probably 95% of the downloads from Usenet end up needing them.
- dmonitor 1y ago7z also does this now FWIW I'd still bet it's Usenet users that installed WinRAR way back when and have stuck to it ever since
- kayson 1y agoThat's me. But now everything is done automagically by nzbget and I use nanazip on my Windows desktop.
- DaSHacka 1y agoBetter compression over .zip and other older formats (like .gz). Why people use it over .7z though? For that, I have no idea.
- CJefferson 1y agorar is super popular in China, because for a long time (and still with many modern implementations) it is much better at preserving Chinese filenames in Windows than zip.
- chrisjj 1y agoDoes zip actually alter some filenames, then?
- chrisjj 1y agoWider filename character support, for one.