Zip vs Rar

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RAR or ZIP

  1. ZIP

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  2. RAR (including tar.gz)

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  1. sciencegto

    sciencegto Well-Known Member

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    #21
    I choose rar because you can split big file size into separate part and without rar just forget about downloading file from rapidshare because all file in rar format.
     
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  2. chandan123

    chandan123 Prominent Member

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    #22
    zip format is good because of protability

    rar is good if targetted users also have winrar ;)
     
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    #23
    used to work with zip untill rar came along. now i do prefer rar and it can have a password too this adds more to security so i like it more
     
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    justinlorder Peon

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    #24
    I am using rar now. It can compress and decompress files that zip can't do.
     
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    skrocks Banned

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    #25
    I am still using winzip. Have no problems with that
     
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    awhite Banned

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    #26
    rar is my preference
     
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  7. Ecreation

    Ecreation Active Member

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    #27
    rar mostly. zip ,when i don't know if the target machine has winrar installed or not.
     
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    #28
    I like rar. it's more simply.
     
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    #29
    rar is more professional and easy to use compression software
     
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    EuCoRi Peon

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    #30
    I prefer .rar.
     
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  11. letsjoy

    letsjoy Well-Known Member

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    #31
    RAR (including tar.gz) is best, zip was good for idea now its RAR time :D
     
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    #32
    I use winrar, but for compressing files that I'll be sending to people or hosting I usually use the zip format.
     
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    EGS Notable Member

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    #33
    ZIP is more popular, RAR is coming up there..

    For compression, use .7zip...best one by far.
     
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    #34
    I like winrar because it handles tarred/gzipped files. I'm not sure if winzip does these days. I use tar/gzip to back my data up and using winrar makes it easy to recover incremental backups. I just select from the first incremental up to the date where I want to recover and hit extract.
     
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    #35
    I like winrar verymuch than winzip. It is so easy and fast in extract.
     
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    Proximity Banned

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    #36
    I prefer RAR :)
     
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    #37
    I use WinRaR but always compress using ZIP.
     
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    #38
    I prefer RAR for its compressing power and Zip is old.
     
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    #39
    The only choice is 7-zip. It can compress to zip, rar, 7z and several other options. Additionally it is open source and completely free so you do not have to deal with all the licensing and registration stuff in WinZip and WinRAR. As for the actual compression format, I usually use .zip just because of the widespread compatability.
     
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    #40
    I prefer RAR. It can compress better than Zip, its secure also. Most of the files I download from the net are compressed by WinRar and are in RAR format. So I prefer RAR.
     
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