Which compression program to use

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Fri 28 Jan, 2005 1:03 am

benryves wrote:The WindowsXP built in compressed folder handler is fine for 90% of stuff.

lies. it doesn't open .rar or .7z or probably many others, but that's all I've tried.

CalcKing · Post by **CalcKing** » Fri 28 Jan, 2005 11:48 am

Spengo wrote:
benryves wrote:The WindowsXP built in compressed folder handler is fine for 90% of stuff.
lies. it doesn't open .rar or .7z or probably many others, but that's all I've tried.

But if all you have to open is .zip, you're all set. I don't have any special decompression programs on this computer.

Post by **benryves** » Fri 28 Jan, 2005 1:30 pm

Spengo wrote:
benryves wrote:The WindowsXP built in compressed folder handler is fine for 90% of stuff.
lies. it doesn't open .rar or .7z or probably many others, but that's all I've tried.

...but how many files are in those? Most files for Windows are in .zip format.

Mortal-God · Post by **Mortal-God** » Fri 28 Jan, 2005 7:47 pm

benryves wrote:
Spengo wrote:
benryves wrote:The WindowsXP built in compressed folder handler is fine for 90% of stuff.
lies. it doesn't open .rar or .7z or probably many others, but that's all I've tried.
...but how many files are in those? Most files for Windows are in .zip format.

vcd's and svcd's and that all that matters.

Proud user of Winrar

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Fri 28 Jan, 2005 8:02 pm

I use izarc. It's in french but it's free and it open many kind of archives

http://izarc.free.fr/[/url]

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Fri 28 Jan, 2005 8:29 pm

Just about all of the..um..old..videogames...that I dl are in .7z because you can compress it a lot. Also, Dr. Snipe is in a .rar and THAT is what counts. :D

Post by **benryves** » Fri 28 Jan, 2005 9:05 pm

Mortal-God wrote:
benryves wrote:
Spengo wrote: lies. it doesn't open .rar or .7z or probably many others, but that's all I've tried.
...but how many files are in those? Most files for Windows are in .zip format.
vcd's and svcd's and that all that matters.

Proud user of Winrar

What the... people RAR up video files? Why would they do that?

The filesize should be no different!

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sat 29 Jan, 2005 12:26 am

I rmember i had a ~50MB 7zip file that was ~1.5GB when extracted! Now thats good compression

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Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Sat 29 Jan, 2005 12:35 am

I know. .7z is like XTREMECOMPRESSION. But it doesn't open everything like winRAR.

Duck · Post by **Duck** » Sat 29 Jan, 2005 12:43 am

From the 7-zip website:

Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB

Thats pretty much all you'll ever need in windows...

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Sat 29 Jan, 2005 1:01 am

either one of two things:
1) either this is not true for the demo version :P
2) or I have an old version of 7zip :D