pmcizhere

Originally Posted by Don't Panic!

@boats-Are you from my East? RAR is popular there, but seldom used in the USA.

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I use WinRAR, and everyone I run into I tell them to use it as well. I don't know why so many people in the States uses WinZIP or zip in general, because it's not as good/easy to use as RAR...

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thebigbread

Originally Posted by Don't Panic!

Can pocketrar open .zip files?

Yes, i used it to unzip both rar & zip files.

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updated 04.14.07

Haesslich

Originally Posted by pmcizhere

... I use WinRAR, and everyone I run into I tell them to use it as well. I don't know why so many people in the States uses WinZIP or zip in general, because it's not as good/easy to use as RAR...

Because ZIP was invented there over twenty years ago and quickly became a standard, with RAR appearing only in the late 1990s... and since WinRAR is shareware (you can only use it for 30 days), it never became as popular as the nagware programs like WinZIP. With ZIP support being built into WinXP natively, RAR support in the US has become a moot point even if a lot of other programs support it (like UltimateZIP) because of the Microsoft connection.

RAR compresses better, but the fact that the main client requires registration (and thus money) to continue usage after 30 days, and that it has a clunky interface doesn't endear it to many Internet users on this side of the lake. Between that and the fact that ZIP support is a standard feature of most programs over here, these days... well, it's like Apple versus Microsoft, but the Apple of the pre-Jobs era (aka: pre-iMac); in other words, not at all popular and seen as a niche product.

And yes, PocketRAR does both, which is why I used it myself until I got Resco.

ssego

Originally Posted by Haesslich

Because ZIP was invented there over twenty years ago and quickly became a standard, with RAR appearing only in the late 1990s... and since WinRAR is shareware (you can only use it for 30 days), it never became as popular as the nagware programs like WinZIP. With ZIP support being built into WinXP natively, RAR support in the US has become a moot point even if a lot of other programs support it (like UltimateZIP) because of the Microsoft connection. RAR compresses better, but the fact that the main client requires registration (and thus money) to continue usage after 30 days, and that it has a clunky interface doesn't endear it to many Internet users on this side of the lake. Between that and the fact that ZIP support is a standard feature of most programs over here, these days... well, it's like Apple versus Microsoft, but the Apple of the pre-Jobs era (aka: pre-iMac); in other words, not at all popular and seen as a niche product. And yes, PocketRAR does both, which is why I used it myself until I got Resco.

Which is weird, because pocketRAR is free, while you have to pay for Resco.. It's weird how some things work isnt it?

solara

WinRAR still functions after 30 days on one computer I have it installed on even though it's not registered.