Re: What are most common problems for newbies ?

[Bernie]

Zach wrote:
>.RAR files are like a .zip or something like that, but it is more
>popular around the warez crowd and things like that....

Correct - "the warez crowd" have changed from zip to arj to rar in order to
get the best compression since this group often needs the few extra
(normally bellow 5 - but can be much higher) percent compression that
changing gives you. Why the majority of users still use (Win)Zip is
something I can't understand.
I've never been much into warez but I've moved along anyway (to RAR before
the "warez crows") since HD space and transportation time isn't free.
That ZIP as a format often gives you problems is also a reason. For
instance imagine disk 20 of 20 getting corrupt - you'll need to get that
one fixed before you can get data from any of the files. Arj and rar
doesn't have this nasty bug, they just uncompress as far as they can. (That
arj and rar files seldom get corrupted is something I can't explain...)