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Cell Undertaker · Apr 23, 2006, 06:21 PM // 18:21

Ok, i know this has nothing to do with gw but

i rly need to know How i open .Rar files

when i download them i open them and then it says (its dutch ill try translating)

Something like the file doesnt exist:
Get it by internet
Search a list

Plz anyone help me out opening the .rar files plz

thx in advance

Zhorry vor zhe krappy englizh

EternalTempest · Apr 23, 2006, 06:24 PM // 18:24

You can try 7zip http://www.7-zip.org (freeware) to open up a rar file.

Tachyon · Apr 23, 2006, 06:33 PM // 18:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by EternalTempest

You can try 7zip http://www.7-zip.org (freeware) to open up a rar file.

Do you know if that is better than WinRar?

Ghozer · Apr 23, 2006, 08:59 PM // 20:59

winrar ftw!

Aera · Apr 23, 2006, 09:00 PM // 21:00

WinRar pwns all, I've never found any proggie I liked more than WinRar

EternalTempest · Apr 24, 2006, 04:45 AM // 04:45

Honestly I use Power Archiver 2006 at home and I think it's the best (I purchased it and get free upgrades for life when I bought it - not sure if that's still true if you buy it now). http://www.powerarchiver.com/

But at work, I use 7zip because it's opensource (does not conflict software licensing at work) and it's free and gets the job done.

I thought Winrar was shareware?

Unlucky Slayer · Apr 24, 2006, 04:56 AM // 04:56

It technically is but you can still use the program well over 40 days that its supposed to work.

EternalTempest · Apr 24, 2006, 05:48 AM // 05:48

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Originally Posted by Unlucky Slayer

It technically is but you can still use the program well over 40 days that its supposed to work.

Power archiver does the same things but the 1st program that did this trick to help get spread and widely used was the ever popular WinZip

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Winzip has fallen from it's lofty postion. it's generally more expensive and doesn't support nearly as many formats as there competion (any of them). That and the new Zip encryption vartion different from the other pkzip encryption (and not being compatibility with each other) really helped things. And both these competing standards still use .zip as the extension ><

To be honest I see 7zip (compression) taking hold nicely since it's open source and having better compression ratio's overall then the other formats.

koneko · Apr 24, 2006, 05:58 AM // 05:58

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Originally Posted by Azagoth

Do you know if that is better than WinRar?

It's better in the sense that it's free and open source. Almost as good, except that the interface is dreadful (compared to WinRAR).

Files compressed with 7-Zip (in .7z) seem to take up less space than if they were to be compressed in WinRAR (in .rar). Then again, 7-Zip is more resource-intensive here (system grinds to a halt).

I have both installed and adjust accordingly. If I need to compress something to send through email, I'll generally choose .rar or .zip (since the recipient of the mail usually will have no clue what ".7z" is.)