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Lately, I see a lot of rants/comments/jokes about WinRAR and its eternal trial (algorithm, is that you?). Here's a nice video explaining why WinRAR chose it as its business model and how it works: https://youtu.be/fTgZRVVr3_Y

Spoiler alert: WinRAR is brilliant.
But use 7-zip or be a command line ninja.

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  • 8
    6y
    🖕 proprietary compression algorithm
  • 0
    6y
    7-Zip is even better with more codecs! https://github.com/mcmilk/...
  • 0
    6y
    tar cvvfj balls.tbz2 /path/to/tar/and/compress
  • 3
    6y
    WinRAR might be brilliant in sense of business, but it's a proprietary file compression format that really shouldn't be used all that much.
  • 0
    6y
    tar xf file.whatever
  • 0
    6y
    @Lahsen2016 If I knew the old flags I would use them, for bragging rights, you know. But I can't seem to learn them, and when I found the "xf" thing, I stopped trying, not worth anymore
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