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:( by Ray of Light 01/22/2007, 11:59pm PST
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

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.)
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.

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Descent 3 by Zseni 01/08/2007, 10:10pm PST NEW
    Hmm... Descent 2? by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/09/2007, 2:21am PST NEW
        Didn't they release the source code for that? by Mischief Maker 01/09/2007, 12:51pm PST NEW
            Followup: Goddamn! by Mischief Maker 01/16/2007, 12:38am PST NEW
                Re: Followup: Goddamn! by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/19/2007, 9:14pm PST NEW
                    Re: Followup: Goddamn! by Mischief Maker 01/22/2007, 8:39pm PST NEW
            Another followup: by Mischief Maker 01/22/2007, 4:47pm PST NEW
                Not that I know. by Worm 01/22/2007, 5:59pm PST NEW
                Re: Another followup: by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/22/2007, 6:01pm PST NEW
                    .rar also has a slightly better compression ratio NT by Entropy Stew 01/22/2007, 7:32pm PST NEW
                        Psh. NT by .z7 01/22/2007, 8:02pm PST NEW
                            I'm also arguably better than rar, for certain tasks at least! NT by .ace 01/22/2007, 9:21pm PST NEW
                                I was huge in the late 80s and early 90s NT by .ARJ, Buffalo Bills 01/22/2007, 9:55pm PST NEW
                                    Let me in on this joke! NT by .LHZ 01/22/2007, 10:15pm PST NEW
                                        Ahhh, this quality control is maybe what ended me! NT by .LZH 01/22/2007, 10:16pm PST NEW
                    :( by Ray of Light 01/22/2007, 11:59pm PST NEW
                MUCH more stable. by Mischief Maker 01/22/2007, 8:32pm PST NEW
    Escape Velocity? by Flabby-o 01/22/2007, 11:20pm PST NEW
    Re: Descent 3 by Mischief Maker 02/06/2007, 7:53am PST NEW
        Game design by Maginot NT by Entropy Stew 02/06/2007, 11:53am PST NEW
 
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