Mail Archives: opendos/2002/02/16/12:44:00
Sorry if the following are dumb remarks :
- Rar has a lot of advantages :
it is shareware but you can use it as such,
the nag screen is removed if you pay the license
- Rar is a multi-file uncompressor (not zip)
- Rar has an error detecting + recovering scheme (smartpar)
allowing to recover damaged files.
These facts and information are now well publicized and
become part of the minimum knowledge (basic requirements)
one should have when using a "personal system".
Jovra
Denise L Yenko wrote:
>
> No, there exists a peculiar file compression program that produces files
> with an ".rar" extension. One of the correspondents here insists on
> using it, even though he's been told on a number of occasions that it is
> a.) proprietary. b.) it is so uncommon that many people don't have a
> program to "un-rar" the files, but c.) he continues to use and send out
> files using the RAR compression method.
>
> Perhaps someone can "un-rar" it for you, and "zip" it up. Considering
> that this discussion has been hashed over several times in the past,
> with exactly the same result, I douubt that he'll change to something else.
>
> FWIW, he claims that RAR compresses files "...better...", and therefore
> we should all switch. It's been suggested to him that the benchmarking
> tests upon which he bases his arguments is hardly a reason to switch
> away from a long-time standard that *IS* open-source.
>
> I doubt that any of this makes any difference to the poster of the file.
>
> Mark in Clinton TWP. MI wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> > I also recieved this but I'm not certain what to do with a "ror" file?
> >Is that a windows extendtion?
> > I thought that this would likely be a exe or com file that could be run
> >from dos and would axcess the windows clipboard in either 3.1 or 95?
> > Is that incorrect?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> >
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