Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 06, 2007 08:43 AM
Yes, you do. Sometimes you simply can't control what other people do. You can ask them politely to use ZIP instead, you can recommend them to install 7zip, but when the moment comes, if they send you a RAR archive because they forgot to use ZIP or because they ignored your petition, you really need a tool to extract the files, specially when you have a deadline coming and can't bother discussing, or they're unreachable at the time you receive the archive.
The reason they use RAR may be that somebody, at some moment, recommended them to use WinRAR or installed WinRAR for them, and that's what they have. Then, they forget or don't know how to select the ZIP format instead of RAR format, or are unaware that the RAR file format is proprietary. It has nothing to do with technical reasons in most cases. Nothing to do with splitting files or the compression level, and many times you have to deal with it and extract the files. Period.
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Re:Why would ANYONE use RAR?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 06, 2007 08:43 AMThe reason they use RAR may be that somebody, at some moment, recommended them to use WinRAR or installed WinRAR for them, and that's what they have. Then, they forget or don't know how to select the ZIP format instead of RAR format, or are unaware that the RAR file format is proprietary. It has nothing to do with technical reasons in most cases. Nothing to do with splitting files or the compression level, and many times you have to deal with it and extract the files. Period.
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