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- grumpyrain, on 10/20/2008, -1/+587z FTW
- takamichinaku, on 10/19/2008, -9/+45WinRaR is the best as of now for me.
- chetanthaker, on 10/21/2008, -1/+22Long story cut short:
1. 7Zip
2. IZArc
3. WinRAR
4. PeaZip
5. The Unarchiver - sh0rtstop00, on 10/21/2008, -0/+207z for me
- ajbl, on 10/21/2008, -1/+12tar -cjf or tar -czf depending on whether or not you want bzip2 or gzip archives
If you are going to use UNIX commands, at least write the correct one... Like the code that compresses instead of the code that extracts. - clickwir, on 10/21/2008, -0/+87zip.
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/Article - deweyhewson, on 10/21/2008, -0/+7JAR files are just essentially ZIP files. Rename the extension and open it as a ZIP; it'll work fine.
I love WinRAR, just thought I'd share that... - drgmdp, on 10/20/2008, -0/+7i've been using 7zip for years, but it's been ages since the last version update. i'll have to try peazip. anyone knows if it supports rar multivolume files?
- Narcowski, on 10/21/2008, -0/+7rtfa
- Katana, on 10/20/2008, -1/+6tar doesn't compress, it just put everything in one file.
I just use winrar, though zip is supported by a lot of operating systems without additional software which can make it useful. - DeathRay2K, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5I love 7zip, I just wish it were as fast as WinRAR unpacking rars...
- darkforce898, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5www.maximumcompression.com
Has all the cool compression algorithms now adays. - zaneperry, on 10/21/2008, -2/+77-Zip is standard
- Narcowski, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5Not going to lie, I was expecting a shock site.
- chaos7, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5winrar and 7-zip for me
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5Must be a mac user. Quicktime is horrible on anything else.
- yurimxpxman, on 10/21/2008, -0/+57zip supports multivolume rar files.
This list sucks. It says absolutely nothing about the compression algorithms. It's basically a recommendation on which one is prettiest. *doh* - netgreek, on 10/21/2008, -0/+5But will it compress Crysis?
- zaneperry, on 10/21/2008, -1/+6Agreed, WinRAR is a good tool. Reads ISO files too.
- felipe1982, on 10/21/2008, -2/+6www.7-zip.org. FREE software. Opens (virtually) anything.
- clickwir, on 10/21/2008, -1/+5Re-explore 7zip. I find little to no use for winrar anymore.
- defected07, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4"The Unarchiver is the built-in default file compression utility for Mac OS X."
No its not, its a 3rd party application. Archive Utility is built into OS X. - xkorbin, on 10/21/2008, -0/+4I hear Duke Nukem Forever is due to come out soon, also.
- Joey999, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3WinRar is the best and it is practically free. If you use context menus instead of opening the actual file then it doesn't nag you to register.
- CasperCreepz, on 10/20/2008, -3/+6Looks like the built in WinXP/Vista archiver didn't make the.
tar -xvf anyone? - perfectnation, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Who remembers STACKER?
- shifty2, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3of course it does... the ISO came in a rar format.
- frenchkick, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3winrar is great but it is not free
so i switched to peazip for less hassle.
and its great! - reaperhatch, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3its the cutest lol
- svivian, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Using it for free.
- felipe1982, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Tar doesn't compress
- specialbuddy1, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Anyone use Alzip? It works pretty good.
- xkorbin, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3I was hoping for a new one to add to my reportaire.
- lolwtfhaha, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Check out lzop. I was trying to saturate a gigabit link with raw disk images. dd | lzop | nc offered the best compression/cpu ratio and allowed me to move data the fastest. I also saved a bundle on my car insurance.
- tama00, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3gzip
You all used it to decompress this very webpage without even knowing it. - geoken, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3I use PeaZip. To me they're all the same, all I care about is that they have an 'extract to archiveName/' context menu item and good icons (which PeaZip has).
- r0b1, on 10/21/2008, -0/+3Z??? Who uses compress anymore.
- fuzzynyanko, on 10/21/2008, -1/+4Wow. After all of these years, we still are using some pretty old compression algorithms
- cluckinchicken, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2shareware? blah. 7zip baby baby!
- fr0stbyte, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Arj Barker?
- tomwhughes, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2I'll throw in a vote for UnrarX for osx. Seems more reliable when extracting password protected, multi-volume rar archives (aka rapidshare downloads ;) ) than The Unarchiver (my other main tool).
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2"Several" users also frequent the Piratebay.
- Raptor007, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2I was gonna bury you because I like QuickTime, but... you're right. Apple did a good job on the Mac version, but their porting wasn't so great.
Although to be fair, Microsoft's attempt at making a Windows Media Player for Mac was even worse. - cquinnd, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2But you can open any of the files and the archiver should be able to check the index to find which volume actually has the file you want extracted without failing.
- CeeJayDK, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2It's been 2 months since Igor Pavlov put out version 4.60.
2 months is ages ? - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2DOS is dead.
- Raptor007, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Why codecs...?
- seenxu, on 10/21/2008, -1/+37zip is the best, hope more people will use this great software.
- Raptor007, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2Lame? Are you describing your comment?
- charlietuna, on 10/21/2008, -0/+27zip on Linux has the oddest CLI, just weird.
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