Re: Petty things
  By: Sean Dennis to Shawn Highfield on Mon Sep 14 2009 04:19 pm

 >  SH>   Granted when I compress something I have winrar create a zip, but
 >  SH>   that's a personal preference.  I just feel ZIP is more stable even
 >  SH>   though I know that's not the case.  Kind of a mental block I think.
 >
 > Here's the real skinny on why I've used RAR all of these years:
 >
 > - RAR is much cheaper to register, $29, than ZIP/DOS, $49.  (Remember
 > folks, ZIP/Windows uses a slightly different algorithm than ZIP/DOS and for
 > older BBS/TIC software, the newer software can confuse the hell out of the
 > old stuff.)

Info-Zip is free.

 > - RAR is continually being improved, not so for ZIP as much if at all.

Info-Zip is regularly updated.

 > - RAR has an OS/2 native version:

So does Info-Zip. 

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