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[Crack177]

I have a question. Why does the script submission section not support .rar files?

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

Because .rar files aren't terribly popular.

[Dalius]

I think they should be allowed. I prefer them to .zip's.

[Aenima]

They're less "known" than zip files. Can you imagine the amount of "i just dled a script but i cant open it it says what do u want to open with pls help thx" posts we'd all get?

[KillerBeeZ]

Originally Posted by Aenima

They're less "known" than zip files. Can you imagine the amount of "i just dled a script but i cant open it it says what do u want to open with pls help thx" posts we'd all get?

Well, we got those a good bit, before on the other forum, before they switched to this one.

I personally prefer Rar's but with C# there really is no need for the extra features of a Rar.

The only thing I can think of is that a rar can be used to "install" the files to certain folders without having to extract... however this wont work because you would have to make it an exe... so, zips are fine by me.

[Brazen]

Frankly .rar gets much better compression that .zips, so if anyone is wanting to make a large package, say with extra features like graphics etc it would be much better to .rar them that to .zip them. As well, if you are even a "lame" user but you have used gateway (which most of us use correct?), that program requires .rar's for any/all custom files' compressed format. That being the case, most users should already have winrar or such program if they have been regular players of any sort using gateway by now anyhow.

I.e. it shouldn't be a big issue to support .rar, and is in fact becoming the standard for users of gateway/runuo shards.

Brazen
Admin - A' Ciotach As Dan

[KillerBeeZ]

Originally Posted by Brazen

Frankly .rar gets much better compression that .zips, so if anyone is wanting to make a large package, say with extra features like graphics etc it would be much better to .rar them that to .zip them. As well, if you are even a "lame" user but you have used gateway (which most of us use correct?), that program requires .rar's for any/all custom files' compressed format. That being the case, most users should already have winrar or such program if they have been regular players of any sort using gateway by now anyhow.

I.e. it shouldn't be a big issue to support .rar, and is in fact becoming the standard for users of gateway/runuo shards.

Brazen
Admin - A' Ciotach As Dan

1) have you seen any submissions that included any images?
2) images like gif or jpg are already compressed thus your not going to get much more out of it
3) Have you ever seen a 1MB submission? even uncompressed?

Its really not that big a deal.

On a side note, it is against the rules to advertise aside from a signature, your post includes your site link, and noone asked for it.

Just fork over the $3 and get a signature to put your links in.

[Phant219]

Oh I did, just not on this user name...

[Morxeton]

Originally Posted by KillerBeeZ

1) have you seen any submissions that included any images?
2) images like gif or jpg are already compressed thus your not going to get much more out of it
3) Have you ever seen a 1MB submission? even uncompressed?

Its really not that big a deal.

On a side note, it is against the rules to advertise aside from a signature, your post includes your site link, and noone asked for it.

Just fork over the $3 and get a signature to put your links in.

The Mega Spawner System is nearing 800k uncompressed I prefer .rar over .zip by far. Compression is way better. When rar'ing the system, its around 115kb, but with zip its closer to 140-145k. It's not really that big of a deal, I just like it better.

[Tylius]

Seriously, RAR is much, much better than zip, I'm surprised it's not so well known. I've seen a few sites switching over to using rar, but the majority isn't. Supported the RAR format would make it much more popular I believe, hell, there's no reason not to, I'm sure it'd be worth pointing people to google and typing "rar", how hard is it?

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

Funny, I see posts saying that .rar should be supported because it gets better compression ratios than zip, but I have yet to see a single post mentioning bzip2 or 7zip, both of which get better compression ratios than .rar...

[awdball]

My personal favorite under WinDoh$ or Do$ is still arj. But the best is gzip via tar! tar -zvf rocks. LOL hee hee hee :^)

[Mortis]

I do not use winzip. I use only winrar and winace. WinAce has better compression than winrar. Both support more than one application for decompressing. Winzip is limited.

I do not like winzip. Maybe I will drive over to their office and yell at them for not supporting othe compresion methods.Seeing as the town it is in is just across the Lake I live on.

I made a tutorial for IIS for some one in the new join forum.It was 63 mb in wordpad. It compressed to under a meg with winrar. I need to install my full adobe acrobat.

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

IZArc supports pretty much any compression format I've ever come across.

[psz]

If I had my way, it'd be Tarballs, damnit. Nothing like a good old fashioned .tgz to make things work!

(That and Slackware supports tarballs the way RedHat supports RPMs ;->)

[Tylius]

Originally Posted by Mortis

WinAce has better compression than winrar.

Actually, for most thing's that I've compared compressing, WinRAR has better compression than WinACE. WinACE used to have better compression for things (from what I remember), but now WinRAR seems to have better compression for most things.

As for 7-Zip, I do like the compression it has, but my main issue is the speed, WinRAR has decent compression, and is faster than pretty much any other tool I've used for speed vs. compression ratio. 7-Zip is awesome when you need the compression, but I'm willing to sacrifice a meg or two to save me an extra few minutes when compressing, or a minute when decompressing (I've compared)

[Marcus247]

If you have Winrar, you can open both .zip and .rar