[SGVLUG] Free licnesed copy of WinRAR

K. Zachary Abbott kzabbott at mypcbiz.com
Mon Jul 31 07:05:22 PDT 2006


Not having used any of the programs you mention (except WinZip, over 
which WinRAR claims to offer tighter compression), I've no idea.  I was 
just passing along the offer...(which ended at 3:00 p.m. yesterday)

John E. Kreznar wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> "K. Zachary Abbott" <kzabbott at mypcbiz.com> writes:
>
>   
>> For those who also use windows boxes and want a free licensed copy
>> of WinRAR ...
>>     
>
> What is the technical advantage of WinRAR over, say, cpio, or
> tar+bzip2, or zip?
>
> - -- 
>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
>   "[What open source is actually achieving is to reduce] the ability of
>    proprietary companies to collect secrecy rent."  -- Eric S. Raymond
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/>
>
> iD8DBQFEzapCYaR8xUGv7xMRAnhYAJ9xD0wyfQ5QaeIFmRJu0YbeEbRwJgCbBdSH
> HycHDk9r1bo6fgev92/cIFI=
> =ksPU
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
>
>
>   


More information about the SGVLUG mailing list