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Ok, this debate has been in a lot of peoples threads, and I'd like to talk about it properly here, instead of hijacking other peoples threads.

There are many open source file compressing utilities that are probably better than 7zip AND Winrar (or so I've heard - TUGzip and lsarc?) but the focus here is between the two of them alone.

Can anyone tell me why Winrar is apparently better than 7zip?


7zip: Better compression ratios.
Totally free, and doesnt nag the life out of you every time you turn the thing on for money
Supports WAYYYYYY more filetypes than winzip for extraction only, fully support filetypes are rougly the same.

Winzip: Looks pretty?

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/softwar ... vs-winrar/
http://inshame.blogspot.com/2009/02/7-z ... inrar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... _archivers
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1442695

I've seen some software cracking groups (*cough* MYTH *cough*) that use eHarc. It seems to work well. Personally, though, I use winRAR. It's fast and easy to use, although it doesn't shave much space off the size of the original file(s). If you need to make small compressions for putting a large file or large files onto a disk, winRAR can break up the selected files into small compressions like .r00 files. Then you can just extract all of these at the same time and it will put the pieces back together into what was originally archived. This is good for sharing stuff that is too big for a floppy disk, but too small to waste a CD on. Just compress it, save it to multiple floppies, then move 'em and unzip to the desired location.