Winrar 3.10 Beta 3

[Kirby]

Ah...a new Winrar is out. For some reason, I couldn't find the version changes, but here's to download for windows : http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar31b3.exe

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[Kirby]

Version changes were finally released:

Version 3.10 beta 3

1. WinRAR displays the progress bar when creating recovery volumes.

2. "Policy" key introduced in the previous beta can be placed
also to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE has
a higher priority than in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

3. When unpacking several encrypted archives at once, console RAR
proposes to reuse a password entered for previous archive.

4. If "Default folder for archives" and "Default folder for extracted
files" fields in WinRAR settings are not blank, "Wizard" command
uses these folders as default when creating or unpacking archives.

5. Bugs fixed:

a) cursor was placed to a wrong position after "Extract To"
command in the file mode;

b) if "Test archived files" option was enabled in the default
compression profile, "Convert" command tested created archives
twice;

c) "Comment" page in the archiving dialog did not work properly
under Windows 9x/Me.

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[campi]

Hmm thought this was only about emulation related news but I read the "General discussion" in the title . Anyway thats great and winrar rockz over winzip . Has better compression, supports compression of directorys and stuff like that. I don't get it why ppl still use winzip ???

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[Ninjaa]

campi, it's because ZIP files have been around on PC systems since forever. It's just an accepted standard.

[_E_]

I find rar. files more convienient than Zip files............

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Rar. is just better for compression. Zip is just conveniant. All there is too it. Even Windows XP has built in unzipping software. But I foresee rar becoming the next standard in about 2 years. Hell it took zip a while to catch on.

Yes this isn't emulation news. I've said this before. But its a barrel I don't want to open.

[aldo]

Originally posted by campi
I don't get it why ppl still use winzip ???

ZIP is a de facto standard since BBS times when PKZIP for DOS became very popular (late 80's). Almost all files were distributed in zip because it was faster to download on the "fast" modems 2400bps. There were other popular formats (like arc and lza), but zip was fast and had a better compression ratio. In mid 90's when Internet became very popular and many BBS were transformed in web sites, ZIP continued as the standard. At that moment, there weren't many ZIP tool for Windows, and Winzip was the best. Now there are many good alternatives to Winzip, but they were in the right place at the right moment.

In the past 3 years, ACE got popularity (in warez scene) because its high compression rate. But recently RAR (with the introduction of 3.x) is gaining even more popularity (specially among developers) because its high compression and new features (ie. the compact SFX with installer look). Today many rar files are being distributed as exe.

However, it will be hard for RAR to beat ZIP: Windows Me/XP include native support for zip, zip compress/decompress faster than rar, and most of the archives in the Internet are (and will stay) in ZIP.

This is not a market analysis of compression tools and I may be wrong in some points, but this is my perception.

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