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WinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally paying (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

RAR files just make me "Huh?" as they are nowhere near as good as 7zip, as universal as zip, or as nice as tarballs.

The memory of multi-part rar files being a good way to get big things voer dial-up is kinda long past, they're a relic, in my book.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    I think theyre still popular on Usenet.

    IDK all the history but rar has built in ability to create recovery data / parity volumes.

    Parity data is like additional data that can help reconstruct any degradation.

    That said, usually a standalone parity generator is used which can work with other types of archives, but rar is what everyone uses so why change.

    Compression algos are ineffective on encoded / compressed media anyway.

    It used to be important on Usenet, and maybe still is, because if a drive starts to fail somewhere and contains errors those errors can be reproduced across the network. Not sure if thats still a thing or why but certainly 10 years ago it was.

    The summary to this rambling comment is: some communities still like rar because its what they've always used and there's no benefit to adopting 7z.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    multi-part rar

    Why not just use Tar with split and cat?

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