Which is the better archiving software

Which is the better archiving software

  • Winrar

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • 7zip

    Votes: 5 83.3%
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Sith Lord
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Ok, you have to be a little quick on this. I was thinking of replacing Winrar with 7zip as the essential unpackaging and packaging utility, but met with some opposition... wanted to settle the question, so just want to know which is the better of the two according to you.
 
Krow

Krow

Crowman
7zip is my favourite. It does the job better than WinRAR for me. For example, this PDF file of 400MB which was my magazine, had to be uploaded to share with DF members. So I zipped it first using winzip (.zip). Result = 121MB.

Next I RARed it with WinRAR. Result = 102MB. Then 7zip, in .7z format... Result 77MB.

Plus 7zip is totally free, so I am all for it. Although WinZIP has this zipx format which is great for photo compression. Blew away both rar and 7z for jpegs.
 
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Krow

Krow

Crowman
techteen said:
Winrar because it's more known and better than winzip.

Not many people know about 7zip yet.
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Wow! Often the lesser known stuff proves to be better than what the majority uses. Besides, WinRAR is not better than WinZip in photo compression.

I would rather have the better stuff than the popular ones... Same as I hate most pop movies.
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Besides, WinRAR is a non-free utility. 7zip is completely free.

I would request the x64 build of 7zip for win and lin.
 
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Sith Lord
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Thank you everyone, including techteen. We are replacing 7zip as the essential archiving software.
 
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