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 |  Subject: Why is final story always in rar file?  Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:25 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:20 pm | |
| Because theres several files, plus compressing it = less space.
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:20 am | |
| It's not the best for compression, but it's the most popular compression program and you only have to upload one file. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:47 am | |
| 1 reason is you cant upload folders so you have to upload a rar
file so you can just extract the folder
and you cant be so stupid you upload every file 1 at a time | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:20 am | |
| Basically what everyone just said. If you were to download 1 file at a time, you would have a lot of browsers up, and then you gotta put everything together. A rar file simplifies those steps. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:28 pm | |
| Whatever happened to zips again? | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:22 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:56 am | |
| Well it doesn't matter since I got a program that does .rar .zip .whatever. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:33 am | |
| .rars are just an "updated" version of .zip, they are not from the same company (WinZip is from Microsoft and WinRar is independent) but .rar copied the source code, GUI and idea of WinZip and tweaked and updated it somehow. The compressing capability was not greatly improved but there are a lot more options when compressing or customize it... and it's just more popular. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:56 pm | |
| ZIP is built in on every freaking Windows already. So although most people are not aware of it, almost everyone has it, so technically speaking: ZIP = more popular. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:43 am | |
| WinZip is not already installed. Windows has some kind of lame extracting program which only supports .zip, but that codec/program is not WinZip. However, if you meant the extension .zip, it might be more popular because of that reason... | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:43 pm | |
| yea recently ive only ever seen like 2 zip files.
usually its rar though lol | |
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| | Subject: Re: Why is final story always in rar file? Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:34 pm | |
| Rar is irritating sine programs like WinRar need to be payed for | |
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