.rar or .zip?

[piankeyfan]

What's the difference?

[.:TimeLock:.]

2 different formats that do the samething  in the although in my opinion rar has proven to have more compression options than zip

peace

[boycriedwolf619]

2 different formats that do the samething  in the although in my opinion rar has proven to have more compression options than zip

peace

[piankeyfan]

That's a good look. 1

[piankeyfan]

But wait. can the program that opens zips open rars?

[.:TimeLock:.]

But wait. can the program that opens zips open rars?

the newest winzip can open rar and zip alike
but winrar can open zip,rar,iso,ace,cab,tar to name a few for years now i prefer just to use one and that's winrar

peace

[piankeyfan]

Yep Yep

[Si-Chiggedy]

winrar is dope

[Invincible]

What's the difference?

A zip file compresses the file to a smaller size whereas a rar file just puts all files in a package at the same size.

[The Watcher]

What's the difference?

A zip file compresses the file to a smaller size whereas a rar file just puts all files in a package at the same size.

actually, you have both options (one file or multiple files) with both. rar is slower to create/extract the files, but it gets a better compression ratio compared to zip or gzip