archiver

[ripken204]

what do you guys think that the best archive program is? like winrar.

[CptMurphy]

winzip or winace. WinZip cuz it tightens up files more. Ace cuz it has a HUGE support list.

[uPDATE]

Never mind. WinRAR is the sickness. I shrunk a 254MB file to 32MUTHA-LOVIN' MB!!!

Edited October 25, 2005 by m3n70r

[DigeratiPrime]

^ lol, i wish more people would try more software before claiming one is the best. I would say probably WinRAR, because its easy to use and has a nice gui. But 7zip is the best really.

[ripken204]

i thought that this would be between 7zip and winrar, i currently use winrar and i pretty much love it, just wondering if anything was better. ive used 7zip a few times a while ago, i think ill give it another try.

[EchoNoise]

7-Zip for me...but different archivers compress files differently in my opinion... most multimedia files get compressed more-so than lets say... batch files and text files less than 500k... so yeah...

TugZip is also a good archiver... it looks really good, runs fast, easy to use interface, and its free

[Scubar]

overall WinRAR is by far the best as its just so much more useable. for high compression though id say 7z or UHAR.

Edit: Completely Forgot about TugZip. excellent freeware program capable of creating many different archive types.

Edited October 26, 2005 by ScubaSteve

[war59312]

7zip followed closly behind by winrar

[Mercury_22]

PowerArchiver 2006, Version 9.5

http://www.powerarchiver.com/download/powarc950.exe

In my opinion THE BEST! archiver solution !!!

[jftuga]

I like the WinRAR UI better than the 7zip interface - it just seemed more intuitive to me. Both command-line versions are great. I prefer Winrar's command-line program because of it's ability to have versioning of the same file with in the same archive. There is also a free version for unpacking, called unrar.exe. I was trying to use 7za to create differential backups (it compared a previous archive file and created a new archive file that only included new/changed files) but it kept crashing on me, giving me an internal error and I could never find anything on the 'net about this. After that, I switched to WinRAR.

-John

[Zxian]

PowerArchiver 2006, Version 9.5

http://www.powerarchiver.com/download/powarc950.exe

In my opinion THE BEST! archiver solution !!!

It may be intergrated, but it gives horrible compression ratios. I used their "7-zip" compression, and it came out larger than WinRAR.

I like the WinRAR UI better than the 7zip interface - it just seemed more intuitive to me. Both command-line versions are great. I prefer Winrar's command-line program because of it's ability to have versioning of the same file with in the same archive. There is also a free version for unpacking, called unrar.exe. I was trying to use 7za to create differential backups (it compared a previous archive file and created a new archive file that only included new/changed files) but it kept crashing on me, giving me an internal error and I could never find anything on the 'net about this. After that, I switched to WinRAR.

-John

Agreed. For my day-to-day archiving I use WinRAR. For those archives or silent installers I use 7-zip to get the highest compression.

[Juster]

I just like WinRAR. i used RAR from DOS...

[Mercury_22]

It may be intergrated, but it gives horrible compression ratios. I used their "7-zip" compression, and it came out larger than WinRAR.

Did you check this 2006 version with "maximum compression" option? maybe it's compression ratios are not The Best around, but "horrible" come on!

[Zxian]

Did you check this 2006 version with "maximum compression" option? maybe it's compression ratios are not The Best around, but "horrible" come on!

Yup... did that.

With 7-zip on an installer I got a compression ratio of 27.5%, while with PA2006 on maximum compression for 7-zip, I got 45%.

[mouvda]

JAR archiver is really curious and efficient for my works. but, not very nice