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Hi there,
does anybody knows a completely free alternative to make .rar archives? Like 7-zip is completely free for .zip's
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(free) Alternative to WinRAR?
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Posted 20 October 2004 - 03:52 AM
honestly, why would u want this? 7zip has best compression ive seen 
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Posted 20 October 2004 - 03:55 AM
MCT, on Oct 20 2004, 10:52 AM, said:
honestly, why would u want this? 7zip has best compression ive seen
sometimes there is a need to make a .rar - therefore I'd like to have an alternative!
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Posted 20 October 2004 - 04:10 AM
RAR is a proprietary format; as far as I am aware of there are no freeware programs available that can create rar files.
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Posted 20 October 2004 - 04:54 AM
hello! sure you can find a freeware tool similar to winzip and it handles a lot of archive formats, 7ZIP & RAR included.
it's called ZIP GENIUS and you can find that HERE
and here there are some SCREENSHOTS
it also contains a lot of extension and themes support. you can find several languages on that site. happy download
it's called ZIP GENIUS and you can find that HERE
and here there are some SCREENSHOTS
it also contains a lot of extension and themes support. you can find several languages on that site. happy download
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Posted 20 October 2004 - 08:13 AM
I usually compare the zipped and rar'ed one.
50% of time rar is better 50% 7zip is better.
50% of time rar is better 50% 7zip is better.
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Posted 20 October 2004 - 07:57 PM
Oh yes but compressing 100MB or so, the .ZIP and .RAR differ each by a mere 1-1.5MB. Not considerable difference.
I'm using WinZIP 9.0 SR-1, WinRAR 3.40.
I'm using WinZIP 9.0 SR-1, WinRAR 3.40.
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Posted 21 October 2004 - 03:01 AM
that very much depends on what u're compressing
if u're compressing a video or a music file u won't probably even recognize the difference. but documents and stuff like that can really be shrinked a lot.
also have u tried different dictionary sizes? different compression method?
if u're compressing a video or a music file u won't probably even recognize the difference. but documents and stuff like that can really be shrinked a lot.
also have u tried different dictionary sizes? different compression method?
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Posted 21 October 2004 - 03:22 AM
Zip Genius cannot create RAR files. It can extract them, but there are plenty of freeware programs that can do that.
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Posted 21 October 2004 - 03:29 AM
Another reason for choosing 7zip was to create a complete freeware installation cd (except MS Windows itself vertainly). Therefore I don't wanted to use WinRAR.
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Posted 23 October 2004 - 11:21 AM
To answer your question, there is no freeware/shareware alternative to create Winrars' RAR format. There are tons of tools that can decompress it.
As far as i can advise you, maybe buy it?
That may seem a bit off topic but seeing that there are no alternatives what choice do you have.
Also the compression winrar gives you can be seen making great compression on music and movie files. But zip is more suited to documents.
Sunil
As far as i can advise you, maybe buy it?
That may seem a bit off topic but seeing that there are no alternatives what choice do you have.
Also the compression winrar gives you can be seen making great compression on music and movie files. But zip is more suited to documents.
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Posted 10 October 2005 - 01:22 PM
When does word size matter? Default is 32, I believe. I see guides say that leave it at whatever when creating the archive. I believe on DriverPacks with Bashrat, he suggested 255 or something higher. I'm clueless about it; this was the only thread in this section I found about strictly 7zip.
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