Which Compressed Format Should I Use?

 > Wow wrote:
  > > I am building a file achieve.
  > >
 > ahhhh now I see why you want to cheat Google.....
 >
 >

i am not trying to cheating anyone here. i have a collection of files which
i want to host. some are binary and some are text. some are just simply
links to other sites. i guess you must be a cheater, because cheater always
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Wow wrote:
 > I know the most popular zip format is RAR

Huh? No it's not. Use either PKZip format (.zip) or Gzipped tar files
(.tar.gz) -- both formats enjoy very wide levels of support.

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 > Wow wrote:
  > > I know the most popular zip format is RAR
 >
 > Huh? No it's not. Use either PKZip format (.zip) or Gzipped tar files
 > (.tar.gz) -- both formats enjoy very wide levels of support.
 >

i should say "most popular compress format" in file achieves. 99% of my
files which are downloaded from elsewhere are in RAR format. ZIP is more
popular in offline world. RAR has smaller size, so it says bandwidth.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Wow wrote:

 > i should say "most popular compress format" in file achieves. 99% of my
 > files which are downloaded from elsewhere are in RAR format. ZIP is more
 > popular in offline world.

Not in my experience. Totally unscientific survey:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=zip&q2=rar&langue=us" target="_blank">http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=zip&q2=rar&langue=us</a>

 > RAR has smaller size, so it says bandwidth.

It also takes more processor time to decode and is less well supported.

Far more people have PKZip or Winzip or Infozip to decode .zip files than
have any RAR software -- Windows XP even has built-in zip support.

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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:53:17 +0100, Toby Inkster
<usenet200407 DeleteThis @tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

 > Wow wrote:
 >
  >> i should say "most popular compress format" in file achieves. 99% of my
  >> files which are downloaded from elsewhere are in RAR format. ZIP is more
  >> popular in offline world.
 >
 > Not in my experience. Totally unscientific survey:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=zip&q2=rar&langue=us</font" target="_blank">http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=zip&q2=rar&langue=us</font</a>>

In *my* experience, and I think this is what Viper was muttering about,
RAR enjoys a much higher percentage of use among warez and appz
distributors. It's wrong to assume that "Wow" will be using the format
for this purpose, but saying that RAR is the "most popular compress
format" sure makes it tempting to guess what kinds of sites he/she is
always visiting...

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Wow wrote:
  >> Wow wrote:
   >>> I am building a file achieve.
   >>>
  >> ahhhh now I see why you want to cheat Google.....
  >>
  >>
 >
 > i am not trying to cheating anyone here. i have a collection of files
 > which i want to host. some are binary and some are text. some are
 > just simply links to other sites. i guess you must be a cheater,
 > because cheater always think others cheat.

Nope I am just a owner of a PPC Search site and a few other sites that
people always try to cheat. I am getting better each day at finding out how
they are cheating. I myself also use Adsense on a few sites and dont want
cheaters to ruin it for all of us that are making money the legal way.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Wow wrote:
  >> Wow wrote:
   >>> I know the most popular zip format is RAR
  >>
  >> Huh? No it's not. Use either PKZip format (.zip) or Gzipped tar files
  >> (.tar.gz) -- both formats enjoy very wide levels of support.
  >>
 >
 > i should say "most popular compress format" in file achieves. 99% of
 > my files which are downloaded from elsewhere are in RAR format. ZIP
 > is more popular in offline world. RAR has smaller size, so it says
 > bandwidth.

RAR is no longer freeware from what I have heard. Use something thats free.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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