RAR is SHIT! ZIP FOREVER! and/or ZIP is SHIT! RAR FOREVER!

Giest118 · Post by **Giest118** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:40 pm

You MAY urinate on your computer in small controlled bursts without risk of permanent hard drive failure, however it is recommended that any such activity take place on the keyboard and nowhere near the CPU. Never urinate onto an exposed hard drive without authorization and supervision of a trained computer technician.

This joke paragraph is copywrited to the Text file for Mock2

Goukuma · Post by **Goukuma** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:04 am

I use WinRAR to make Zips. Because I also still use pkzip/pkunzip. Hell, pkzipfix was able to salvage at least one file from damaged a two file zip that WinRAR couldn't extract either of. What's particularly annoying is that the specifications of RAR change. I had to get a newer version of WinRAR in order to extract from newer RARs.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:28 pm

Goukuma wrote:Hell, pkzipfix was able to salvage at least one file from damaged a two file zip that WinRAR couldn't extract either of.

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Post by **Kate** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:59 pm

HotWax wrote:Blenders eat socks smelly apple pie forest wrangler?

Hahaha. HotWax, You never fail to make me laugh.

tyomitch · Post by **tyomitch** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:12 am

.ha, which noone seems to have mentioned
and, uh, that .??_ format that windows distribution is compressed to (e.g. .sys -> .sy_)
there's no standard app in windows to make cabs, but there are some (e.g. CabMan), iirc one also comes with msvs

Post by **randi** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:47 pm

Cabarc (which I use) comes with Visual Studio, and XP and some other Windows come with a simple command-line .cab maker. Its biggest problem is that Microsoft's standard tools (other than cabarc) ignore any folder information even though the format is perfectly capable of storing them.

The .??_ files are just single-file cabs.

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:31 am

Is this Cabarc free? Can I get it from anywhere for... free? Or did I just not read anything and it actually turns out that I can get it from Microsofts site?

Damn...

Sticky · Post by **Sticky** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:56 pm

If you have XP, there's a makecab.exe in your system32 folder (it may exist in other versions as well, but I can't test that). It's command line, but not very complex. Knock yourself out.

Post by **randi** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:24 pm

I'm pretty sure makecab can't handle directories.

A quick google for "cabarc" reveals this Microsoft page as the first hit: Microsoft Cabinet Software Development Kit. It's command-line too. If you want to use it, always include -m lzx:21 on the command line, otherwise the compression is no better than zip (so you might as well just use zip).

Sticky · Post by **Sticky** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 9:30 pm

I don't use it (makecab), I was just pointing it out for those who don't It's there. Sounds like it's "useless" anyway (shocking). Btw Stop changing avatars... it's freaking me out.

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:59 am

Okay... it looks complecated so I'll just stick to zip

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