RAR File Format

[Baron Munchausen]

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.

[Kamog]

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...

[Suicide Junkie]

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

[Phoenix-D]

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..

[Suicide Junkie]

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.

[Electrum]

I've been using IZArc for sometime. Easy interface. Works w/ just about any format. IT'S FREE!

http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/

[Gandalf Parker]

Imperator Fyron said:

Zip was never an option... There was no bias. This was never meant as a general format poll; it was only meant to determine if there is any need to continue adding the self-extracting modules. I may not have made that entirely clear...

Ahhh I had the impression that it was seeking a general consensus of all of the modders and download sites. That it was a personal question wasnt clear.

There are obvious pros and cons I guess. RAR's give a time-download boost for a "but you must first download and install" instruction. EXE's give less personal control on the install but can be more helpful for automating where things should go and a level of newbie friendliness. Also EXE's involve an extra layer of trust on the part of the user.

Personally I have a RAR extractor. But then I have a couple dozen different format extractors and Im always a slight bit irritated when Im told to go get another.

[Combat Wombat]

After using Win RAR I have never gone back to anything else

[Atrocities]

WinR is a great program. Cheap to. Fyron turned me onto it a year or so ago and I to have never looked back.

[Fyron]

Ok... This thread isn't meant to tout WinRar, it is only to see if people need self extracting archives. And it seems as if SFX is not needed by 26/28 people...