archivers such as winrar
Chris Prillo has a rant about what is the best archiver program. I must admit that I too have long since stopped using winzip. There was a time when it was used extensively on my computer and it was one of the first programs installed. How times keep changing!
“I’m not usually passionate enough to stir up the debate, but Ed Bott started it this morning with his Corel completes destruction of WinZip post. Like Ed, I’ve been a WinZip user for years - since Windows 3.1. I appreciated that my initial registration fee would apply to all subsequent versions - until the most recent version. Then, the world started to distribute RAR files, and WinZip was all like “WTF?” and I was all like “Yeah, it’s another compression format.” If you only have enough room for one compressed file manager, WinRAR should be it. “
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