.zip and .rar

[nickels]

hi

could someone tell me what the difference is between these?

thanks
nickels

 

[MagicalTrevor]

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]

I just use .rar as it has better compression.

i dont think there is much difference between them really.

 

[MarcLister]

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]

Like I said

 

[nickels]

thanks a lot

nickels