09-25-2003, 08:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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PocketRAR 3.2 Beta 1 Released
Do you have a need to extract RAR files on your Pocket PC? I personally dislike the format as I've been using ZIP and TGZ for years, but it seems to be gaining popularity in certain circles. In any case, RARLab has a Pocket PC beta version out, and it presumably has support for other compression formats as well. If any of you give it a try, post your experiences here. 
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09-25-2003, 08:26 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I much prefer rar as a compression method on my desktop, so it's great to see this for the PPC. The only thing better would be to see rar support built into Resco Explorer.
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09-25-2003, 08:37 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2003
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RAR is a great compression format. It usually creates smaller archives then ZIP and it's faster. Besides that, soon enough the ZIP standard will split between PKZip and Winzip so it'll be far less portable.
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09-25-2003, 08:51 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by shlide
Besides that, soon enough the ZIP standard will split between PKZip and Winzip so it'll be far less portable.
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why do say that? is there some litigation or something going on that will split the two?
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09-25-2003, 09:09 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,213
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Originally Posted by shlide
RAR is a great compression format. It usually creates smaller archives then ZIP and it's faster. Besides that, soon enough the ZIP standard will split between PKZip and Winzip so it'll be far less portable.
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The only instances where that will be true are when people use the high encryption features of either WinZip for PKZip or when creating a zip file which contains a truly massive number of files which triggers the use of WinZip's new 64-bit archive format. If the user creates just a standard zip file, any zip-compatible program will be able to extract it.
That said, I've stopped using WinZip in favor of WinRAR despite being a registered WinZip user for many years. WinRAR can create and read zip files as well as many other archive formats. RAR files can have built-in recovery information to help recover from archive corruption, and you can specify the size of each part when spliting the archive into multiple parts. ([cough] newsgroups [cough]) I still mostly create and use zip files, though, since they are more universal.
-- Dave
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09-25-2003, 09:12 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Hmm, I guess I'll have to revisit RAR then. I've just grown used to the tools available on most Windows and Linux desktops, and that's Zip and targz, respectively. Zip is even built into Windows nowadays.
I do use WinRAR at home to do occasional decompression of binaries I get, but that's about it. But hey, if it works better, go for it.
--janak
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09-25-2003, 10:06 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2003
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I also prefer WinRar. It generally produces smaller files. If you are compressing many similar files into one archive, RAR can be dramatically smaller than zip. Another plus is the comprehensive command line functionality.
However, as much as I like it, I find WinRAR a hard sell. With gigantic harddrives and high speed internet connections, greater compression is less and less important. WinRar is slower than zipping. It does more work to get better commpression. The documentation admits as much. The real killer is that everyone can open a zip file, Most people scratch their head when presented with a rar file.
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09-25-2003, 10:16 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Just a note....
I purchased/downloaded Norton AV 2004 and it comes compressed as a self-extracting RAR file. This is a first for them, as all other downloads came as native files or zip file.
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09-25-2003, 10:36 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Anyone try using XacRett?
It does a lot, but no RAR support.
"The unpacker/decoder of formats LZH / ZIP / GZIP / RAR / TAR / BZIP2 / Compress / MS CAB/ Ync / ARJ / IMP / BASE64 / UUencode / XXencode. "
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09-25-2003, 11:03 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 59
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Originally Posted by Kaber
Anyone try using XacRett?
It does a lot, but no RAR support.
"The unpacker/decoder of formats LZH / ZIP / GZIP / RAR / TAR / BZIP2 / Compress / MS CAB/ Ync / ARJ / IMP / BASE64 / UUencode / XXencode. " |
Yep, I've used it before but it lacks the ability to select a specific file to extract. You have to extract the entire archive.
btw... it does support RAR (it's fourth in the list you quoted too)
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