Do you submit in .zip or .rar?

Do you guys submit your articles in .zip or .rar format? I ask this since I often forward article orders in .zip format (for orders of 10 articles up) but lately some of my clients want them in .rar. How do you pile them all up in .rar? Is there like a special software or something? What's the difference between the two?

 

WinRar is an application similar to WinZip. I personally believe it can compress software better than WinZip. You can download it from their website. However, I believe you can only use it for free for 40 days.

 

One of my web pages is the number one ranked page on how to open RAR files. It's a nice opportunity for us. But really I don't like the RAR format because it is a proprietary format and you have to buy the software from RAR labs to create RAR archives. Other compression products can only open the files, not create them. And there is nothing built into Windows, Linux or Mac that can open them, so everyone who downloads a RAR file has a problem knowing what to do with it.

Zip is an industry standard. Why use anything else?

 

I have winrar installed, but I don't use rar format usually.

 

I use winrar it works for zip also and you can download a virus freeware version.

 

Did you get your software for free or did you pay for it? I visited the RARsoft website that TopSR suggested but it's only a trial version.

 

^ thanks dynashox

Do you also think that files can be compressed better if you use RAR instead of ZIP? I actually don't have Winzip. What I just do is highlight all of the files, right click and then choose "Send to". Also is there any other way to zip files up?

 

.zip. This is my first time hearing about .rar.

I use the highlight, right-click, send to method to zip files.

 

.zip is more common that .rar, as far as I'm concerned.

 

I mostly send my works in the .zip format to my clients and I haven't encountered any problems with it...

Yeah, I also think that the .zip is more common than the .rar format...

 

Thank you very much to all your replies! I wonder why my latest client really wants the articles in .rar format. Hmm... anyways thanks everyone I also already downloaded the RAR software, just in case

 

7 zip is a freeware which works fine with most of the compression formats including *.7z which gives way more compression compared to rar and zip..

 

7zip is the best. I use it to extract .zip and .rar files - it's way faster than Windows NT's built-in compression/extraction utilities as well.

I never tried .7z for compression but compression really doesn't matter to me...I just use 7zip to extract files really, and sometimes zip them up. I always prefer .zip, since it was the first file-type I ever downloaded or compressed, and thus I am more comfortable with it.

 

So the person who also needs to "unzip" the files need 7zip as well?

 

usually use Zip, more common to my opinion

 

RAR format became popular in the late 1990s because it was a freeware MS-DOS application with the best compression over any other utility of this type.

Early WinRAR versions were fully functional shareware before new and improved compressors came into play (BZ2, 7ZIP, etc.)

Even though, in the practice, you will rarely need to compress/open RAR, BZ2, 7ZIP or any other format which, by the way, I can open and compress using Total Commander, a Windows Explorer file manager alternative.

 

I hadn't even heard of .RAR until two days ago, when one of my new freelance writers sent me her work saved this way. I was like, "What the heck...?!"

I had to ask her to just send it to me as a series of Word documents.

This obviously isn't *that* popular. Most of us can open a .ZIP file, though.