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You know people who use WinRAR?
Have you ever downloaded a scene release?
You do realise you can decompress .rar using 7zip right?
After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release
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You know people who use WinRAR?
You don't!?
I don't. Feel free to read my reasoning here: http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt
Re: After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release
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You know people who use WinRAR?
Have you ever downloaded a scene release?
Yeah it's usually an ISO within multiple RARs within multiple ZIPs. And this is when they don't act playful and use an obscure archive format that can only be extracted with a (paid or free but infected) closed source app.
Depending on the platform I'm using I have some code in bash, Powershell and C# to deal with this. Non coders must have a hard time !
Re: After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever downloaded a scene release?
Yeah it's usually an ISO within multiple RARs within multiple ZIPs. And this is when they don't act playful and use an obscure archive format that can only be extracted with a (paid or free but infected) closed source app. Depending on the platform I'm using I have some code in bash, Powershell and C# to deal with this. Non coders must have a hard time !
Jdownloader automatically extracts archives, no fancy scripts needed.
From my observation, most downloads are rar format (95% at a guess), but it doesn't really matter if it's rar or 7z as the differences in resource usage are negligible.
The good news is that most archives support free extraction of both formats.
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#16I am always amazed 7zip hasn't supplanted WinRar and the Rar format.
RAR has some unique built-in characteristics like recovery record (useful when archiving on optical discs, or any other media which can degrade in time) and recovery volumes (which was a life-saver feature in the age of floppy disks).
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#18It's a pity they don't have a native OSX version. I'm aware that options exist like Keka, but I prefer the interface of 7zip.
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You do realise you can decompress .rar using 7zip right?
But the scene releases are not using 7zip to create the rars, are they?
Among the movers and shakers in the scene, isn't there generally a predilection to use free software over non-free software? E.g. the only time I run across matroska contained movies is when it's released from the scene.
Re: After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release
#20I am always amazed 7zip hasn't supplanted WinRar and the Rar format.
RAR has some unique built-in characteristics like recovery record (useful when archiving on optical discs, or any other media which can degrade in time) and recovery volumes (which was a life-saver feature in the age of floppy disks).
Another major contributor is likely that with rar you can make a multi-file self-extractor. Seem to recall that before broadband and torrents, many a pirated game was released as a split rar .exe that could fit on floppies and was spread across numerous upload sites.
Dump them all in a dir, run the exe, and game on...