vondaher Posted October 20, 2004 Posted October 20, 2004 Hi there,does anybody knows a completely free alternative to make .rar archives? Like 7-zip is completely free for .zip'sGrtz!
MCT Posted October 20, 2004 Posted October 20, 2004 honestly, why would u want this? 7zip has best compression ive seen
vondaher Posted October 20, 2004 Author Posted October 20, 2004 honestly, why would u want this? 7zip has best compression ive seen sometimes there is a need to make a .rar - therefore I'd like to have an alternative!Grtz!
Skyfrog Posted October 20, 2004 Posted October 20, 2004 RAR is a proprietary format; as far as I am aware of there are no freeware programs available that can create rar files.
MCT Posted October 20, 2004 Posted October 20, 2004 try http://sourceforge.net http://google.com http://softpedia.com
magicfly Posted October 20, 2004 Posted October 20, 2004 hello! sure you can find a freeware tool similar to winzip and it handles a lot of archive formats, 7ZIP & RAR included.it's called ZIP GENIUS and you can find that HEREand here there are some SCREENSHOTSit also contains a lot of extension and themes support. you can find several languages on that site. happy download
XtremeMaC Posted October 20, 2004 Posted October 20, 2004 I usually compare the zipped and rar'ed one.50% of time rar is better 50% 7zip is better.
rupert86 Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 Oh yes but compressing 100MB or so, the .ZIP and .RAR differ each by a mere 1-1.5MB. Not considerable difference.I'm using WinZIP 9.0 SR-1, WinRAR 3.40.
XtremeMaC Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 that very much depends on what u're compressingif u're compressing a video or a music file u won't probably even recognize the difference. but documents and stuff like that can really be shrinked a lot.also have u tried different dictionary sizes? different compression method?
Skyfrog Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 Zip Genius cannot create RAR files. It can extract them, but there are plenty of freeware programs that can do that.
vondaher Posted October 21, 2004 Author Posted October 21, 2004 Another reason for choosing 7zip was to create a complete freeware installation cd (except MS Windows itself vertainly). Therefore I don't wanted to use WinRAR.Grtz!
mazin Posted October 21, 2004 Posted October 21, 2004 zip-i-mage is the best if you want to compress image files like BMP, JPG,..etc.Not free, though.
MHz Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 IZARC is my choice for free archiving. It decompresses more formats than any other and is feature packed.
Sunil Posted October 23, 2004 Posted October 23, 2004 To answer your question, there is no freeware/shareware alternative to create Winrars' RAR format. There are tons of tools that can decompress it. As far as i can advise you, maybe buy it?That may seem a bit off topic but seeing that there are no alternatives what choice do you have.Also the compression winrar gives you can be seen making great compression on music and movie files. But zip is more suited to documents.Sunil
matthewk Posted October 10, 2005 Posted October 10, 2005 (edited) When does word size matter? Default is 32, I believe. I see guides say that leave it at whatever when creating the archive. I believe on DriverPacks with Bashrat, he suggested 255 or something higher. I'm clueless about it; this was the only thread in this section I found about strictly 7zip. Edited October 10, 2005 by matthewk
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