Hello Darrin, Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 9:05:23 AM, you wrote and sent the following:
> Hello TBUDL, > Stated a discount on win-rar > http://www.win-rar.com/discount?ritlabs > Never used it before. Is it better than zip? I have received a > couple files before in .rar format but most often they are .zip. Love WinRar. Better compression when using Rar, can create Zips for friends who haven't seen the light yet, create simple installers in a GUI interface or self extracting files, and more. btw, it is also as free as ZIP (or not ;) ). If you go over the 40-day eval you get reminded that it isn't supposed to be free, but can still use most functions. I bought it to support 'em. *Trial it first.* Also, if you've ever come across a bad zip file: Rar files can have 1) Recovery Record (as a % or each archive), gives WinRar the chance to repair broken archives by storing some extra recovery data within (increases size of file, better compression makes that a "so what" unless the % is really high) 2) Recovery Volumes. When spanning archives volumes, across CDs for example. You can create X number of recovery volumes that can replace any one vol in the set. Yep. I don't get how it works, but it supposedly does. Yes, this increases the overall size, by one CD for me always but if the data is important..... Enough of the commercial..... -- Andrew Using The Bat! 3.0.1.33 On Windows XP, 5.1 Build: 2600 The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. --Aristotle, Politics ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
