Well 7z & Zip have supplanted Rar as defacto standards for downloaded content with
Zip as usual the most common.
If it does Rar, Zip, adds better compressing 7z format, and incorporates all the
positives / none of the negatives you mention then one would have to question "why
use use WinRAR at all?"
I can think of nothing I had to compromise switching from WinRar to 7Z.
On 4/23/2010 1:17 PM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Bryan Seitz wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, DSinc wrote:
TNX Bryan! I'll start to roll it out on the lan!
For me, 7zip is now a "must have."
Best,
Duncan
Have not used 7 zip much, but I really like winrar. www.rarsoft.com.
Handles just about anything I throw at it including jara jar files, iso
files, bz2, etc.
Try it you might switch. I too used WinZip and Winrar before
converting. Winrar is also not free.
I'm not sure how you can enhance an application used to decompress files
really. I want the window to show me the files, I want shell integration
to extract everything to current folder or to subfolder. I do *NOT* want
something running all the time like the winzip helper thing that goes
into the systray, I do not want a wizard that asked 20 questions when I
try to extract a file.
I'll look at 7zip, but I'm going in very skeptical that it will meet my
needs any better than winrar does. It will have to do it better BTW, I'm
not someone to switch to something new unless there is value in it.
Christopher Fisk
