Also the user experience is decent. I never actually liked how Windows handled zip files. With WinRAR I can just open the file and run stuff from there. With Windows it has not been that simple.
I never truly got around the thing how zips look like fake folders.
The WinRAR GUI also provides some neat features I haven't seen before, or at least not presented easily. I needed to delete a particular file from a bunch of archives (ZIPs) that was in some of them, but not in others and I didn't know which archives had it. WinRAR can search multiple archives within the archives for a specific file or extension, shows the output in the file pane and I was able to delete them all in one hit. Very niche feature, guaranteed not to appear in Windows when support is added. I'm a slave for heavy functionality software - it's bloat until you need it.
> people who want to compress files in that format will still need a third party app like WinRAR. We would like to believe that loophole will keep the company going for some time.
Yeah but like 99.7% of everyone that ever touches a RAR file only do so to extract something.
Then again, most of those same people probably use the unlicensed version anyway.
I was always a little unclear why people used this at all. What does it offer over, say, semi-modern zip files? (I have dim memories of early zip files having weird restrictions on size and number of files, but those seem to have been long since resolved).
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 26.3 ms ] threadI never truly got around the thing how zips look like fake folders.
Yeah but like 99.7% of everyone that ever touches a RAR file only do so to extract something.
Then again, most of those same people probably use the unlicensed version anyway.