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Yes, I have a program installed that can handle RAR archive files.
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December 23rd, 2004, 09:09 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
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What's the best free RAR extractor?
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You can get winrar here:
http://rarlabs.com/rar/wrar341.exe
It works the same as winzip with the little startup window after 30 days.
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WinRAR I can definitely say is NOT the best RAR extracter. The user interface isn't very good at all.
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December 23rd, 2004, 09:24 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
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WinRAR I can definitely say is NOT the best RAR extracter. The user interface isn't very good at all.
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I second this. The RAR format may be great, but WinRAR itself has a long way to go before matching WinZip's UI. |
December 23rd, 2004, 11:01 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
Strange... I always found WinRar's GUI to be vastly superior to WinZip...
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December 23rd, 2004, 11:24 PM
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Re: RAR File Format
I find QuickZip's interface to be superior to both... 
I'm thinking of moving to the open source 7zip in the future, though, simply because it's part of the open source movement. Haven't actually tried it yet. |
December 24th, 2004, 12:15 AM
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Re: RAR File Format
Eh? What interface? 
In both cases its just a window where you drop files you want compressed into the archive you just opened with a double-click.
IMO, wizards are silly, and I've never used the buttons/menus.:P
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December 24th, 2004, 03:28 AM
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The archive opens, however WinRAR has to me a silly extraction interface. Mostly is annoys me that I have to select my SE4 extract directory manually each time..winzip just automaticlly slaps the files into the same directory unless I tell it otherwise. And it doesn't extact only one file in the archive if I click on a file..
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Re: RAR File Format
Click and drag is where its at Implied extraction location.
Extracting the whole thing? I've never noticed that except in the case of an executable, such as a setup.exe where it will need everything unzipped to the temp folder.
If it did extract them all all the time, I'm sure I would have run out of disk space on drive C a lot more than I remember.
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Well, I haven't used RAR before but you guys convinced me to start using it. Sounds like it's a lot better than zip...  |
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Re: RAR File Format
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Strange... I always found WinRar's GUI to be vastly superior to WinZip...
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I have always prefered FreeZip. Especially since it gives me more control. I prefer downloading many add-ons then being able to unzip everything in a directory with one command. And programs which involve frequent downloads I create a batch file to handle things properly in the directories for that particular game.
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Well, I've got broadband, but my ISP uncooly slaps me with a monthly download limit, so anything that makes files smaller is a good thing by me.
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