.zip and .rar

nickels · 14 Nov 2006 at 20:38

hi

could someone tell me what the difference is between these?

thanks
nickels

MagicalTrevor · 14 Nov 2006 at 20:43

they are just different compression techniques... rar tends to be more efficient than zip, thus resulting in a smaller file size.

ace/tar etc. theres quite a few.

Kerplunk · 14 Nov 2006 at 21:38

I just use .rar as it has better compression.

i dont think there is much difference between them really.

MarcLister · 14 Nov 2006 at 22:29

Kerplunk said:
i dont think there is much difference between them really.

Think I just found some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers

Kerplunk · 14 Nov 2006 at 22:32

Like I said

nickels · 14 Nov 2006 at 22:44

thanks a lot

nickels