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Hullu Hevonen
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Compression tools

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People are alwar talking about that RAR compression is really good, but today when I did a compression of my mod, I noticed that;
ZIP compressed a file of 64.4mb to 32.4mb
7ZIP compressed same file to 17.8mb
RAR compressed same file to 30.7mb

Why is 7z so much better or is it?
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Most typical: 7zip is free so its algorithms better, Winrar is shareware so it has a user-friendly interface and can repair broken archives. It's like Unix/Windows...
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