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[quote name="Ray of Light"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]RAR is what all the warez kiddies used because it wasn't leet to use Winzip. (And I remember Winrar having nicer integration with Windows than Winzip did back in the day -- being able to right click on a .rar file and having options for how the extraction would go was nice. I think Winzip implemented all that after Winrar did.)[/quote]RAR was preferred because you could have multi-volume archives in one directory. Whereas PKZip's multi-volume assumed you were spanning floppies and would prompt for blank ones during compression, writing a same-named file to each as it went. At DEcompression time, PKzip required you to insert the last floppy first, then the first, second, and so on. These flaws made zip a poor fit to the warez distribution model. AND it had better compression than zip, until zip added the "Deflate" method in response to ARJ/RAR eating its lunch. [/quote]