Hi
16 Oct 2001, "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> what's Your problem with RAR? It works nice for me.
CV> I share Thomas' distaste for RAR.
CV> It's big (very)
see below
CV> slow (very)
there's a tradeoff between speed and compression.
CV> and unfriendly (VERY).
hmmm ... I find that it is the most friendly archiver. (with its built in
NC like shell)
The only problem is that only the unrar utility is GPLed.
(but neither pkzip nor arj or lha ar GPL ;)
CV> The prime point of comparison is PKunzjr:
CV> 2924 bytes. So fast it will take your breath away.
CV> Why should a decompression program need to be 100 times as big ?
its 10 times bigger ...
unrar.exe 32086 2.03.99 6:13
And it has to do much more work ... because the decompression of a RAR
archive is much more complex than zip.
(multimedia archive, recovery records, possibility to embed start scripts
...)
32 KB is absolutely acceptable for me.
PKunzip is bigger.
pkunzip.exe 34583 20.10.98 13:35
Maybe RARSoft should also release a unrarjr.exe ?
PS: The ACE archiver tries to mimic rar ...
it compresses better and is slower ...
I wouldn't use it on a 8086 ;)
CV> - Clarence Verge.
CU, Ricsi
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