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I use both 7Zip and WinRAR and they are both better than each other depending on what you are compressing. &Zip has potential however it is still in BETA. I have spoken with the developer of WinRAR and he plans to add 7Zip extraction support to WinRAR when 7Zip is finalised but not the creation of 7Zip archives (however this is possible via a module which he might develop if we ask him nicely :yes: )

I still prefer WinRAR as it has more features and its compression levels are excellent.

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7zip is nice, but i wish author would pull the stick out of his ass and implement better for support for TotalCommander.

he's big fan of FAR and refuses to do anything for TC :(

I guess even the coolest of people have a little bit of a fan boy in them. I'm talking about ther author, not you.

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Why not? Zip's been around for pretty long, and including PKZIP, its been around for close to 8 to 9 years... It's also the most portable compression format.. most OSes/architectures have some sort of zip utility lying around ... That simply can't be said for any competing format ( 7Zip, RAR, ACE, blah blah blah )

And while it doesn't' really compress VERY well, the tradeoff between size and speed is still amongst one of the best.

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To say something in defense of the aging old ZIP format, its the one format that's everywhere - chances are that down the road 20 years from now, we'll still be using it as the default format...

You wont find many ZIp files on Usenet ;)

Also more and more companies are moving to WinRAR because it fully supports creating/extracting ZIP files and it comes with a very powerful SFX creator included in the price (something WinZip doesnt). Also WinRAR has free lifetime updates and has a good price. That is why so many companies are now purchasing it over upgrading WinZip.

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I use both 7Zip and WinRAR and they are both better than each other depending on what you are compressing. &Zip has potential however it is still in BETA. I have spoken with the developer of WinRAR and he plans to add 7Zip extraction support to WinRAR when 7Zip is finalised but not the creation of 7Zip archives (however this is possible via a module which he might develop if we ask him nicely :yes: )

I still prefer WinRAR as it has more features and its compression levels are excellent.

That is exactly what i like to see. I think it will be great if WinRAR support extractinf 7zip. It doesn't have to compress them. Extraction would be nice as this means i could have one less program to install.

But any news on this yet?

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I needed to compress 2.8Gb on one cd just yesterday. Used 7Zip for that :)

Woh! Nice!

Yea, 7zip has been my new favorite for a few months now. I don't have WinZip, WinRar or WinACE installed. Felt weird at first, but in time, 7zip did what the others do and better sometimes. Plus, its free. Can't go wrong there.

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