New 7zip can unpack iso's :)

bledd · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:01

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

4.36 beta

finally, goodbye winrar!

james.miller · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:03

hey that's good news. i like 7-zip

aaazza · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:14

I kind of like WinRAR is 7-zip that much better?

aaazza

PinkPig · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:56

Not sure it's any better, but it's free without any registration screens.

bledd · 13 Mar 2006 at 12:36

and much cleaner interface

7z compression is better than rar too (takes a bit longer to actually compress, but its smaller filesizes)

sfx · 13 Mar 2006 at 12:37

I just created an Archive with WinRAR and 7-Zip, both compressing to ZIP as it is the most popular. Here are the results.

Folder/File Details:
Size: 6.17 MB (6,474,244 bytes)
Size on disk: 6.28 MB (6,594,560 bytes)
Contains: 51 Files, 14 Folders

7-Zip:
Compression: Ultra
Time: 29 Seconds
Size: 1.73MB

WinRAR:
Compression: Best
Time: 3 Seconds
Size: 1.85MB

While 7-Zip does get you a lightly smaller file size size, I would prefer the extra size than to wait the extra 26 Seconds. As you can see it is not a great deal of stuff I am trying to compress so I would not be to keen on compressing a lot of stuff with 7-Zip.

Unpacking they are pretty much the same. I have a large ISO file here I will test that in a few mins.

sfx · 13 Mar 2006 at 12:38

bledd. said:
and much cleaner interface

7z compression is better than rar too (takes a bit longer to actually compress, but its smaller filesizes)

How many people actually use 7z compression though? I have not come across 1 archive that has been compressed to 7z.

chriscpritchard · 13 Mar 2006 at 17:55

sfx said:
How many people actually use 7z compression though? I have not come across 1 archive that has been compressed to 7z.

firefox's installer is a self extracting 7z file