Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z
.rar is an awful proprietary format that needs to die, and die soon. You should NEVER use .rar files when sending files to others due to its closed proprietary nature.
.zip is preferable because everyone can handle it by default. 7z is OK because nearly everyone can handle it by default and it is an open format.
I recently had to figure out how to un-ARJ an archive that originally spanned 5 floppies!
Anyone remember “master splitter” for splitting files up between floppies? Used that to transfer so many mp3s back in the day… Lol
Wow mp3 files on floppies??
Yeah was a strange time, zip drives were a thing but not very widespread or useful. USB drives weren’t a thing yet and CD Burners were extremely expensive. So this is how I moved MP3s from our PC with internet to the other PCs in the house. We eventually got a router and networked the house a year or two after that.
But I paid for WinRAR.
Nonsense. I do not use RAR anymore, but sure as hell there does not exist a production stable robust archival format as great as RAR. It has the most complete Unix/Windows precision timestamp support AND recovery record feature builtin. It also has features like locking archive.
ZIP is a close second, with 7Z following and the rest way behind.