I see rar in a load of file sharing sites and torrent sites. At 06:57 PM 1/5/2007, Thomas Ward wrote: >Hi Chris, >Rar format isn't a very common one. The only program I know of that >mainly uses it is Winrar. I think it is some sort of varient of the open >source tar format, but I am always surprised that Winrar users don't use >one of the more compatible formats like zip, gz, etc when redistributing >files since they work with just about everything. >I don't have a problem with Winrar since it supports a huge variety of >archival formats, but that said since Winrar supports all those formats >why use a proprietary format when it supports several open source freely >available formats. >The zip format is now an open source standard for general purpose >archiving along side, tar, bz2, and gz. > > >moonsinger wrote: >> I've used winrar fra couple of apps, but I had to find ou even what that >> file extention was via google. Personally, I mainly use zip files. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >> any subscription changes via the web. >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web.
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