Comments on: Compression Software: PeaZip, NanoZip, 7-Zip, WinRAR, WinZip, Tar

By: Huffman

Huffman — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:11:05 +0000

While achieving better compression than ZIP, WinRAR is by far NOT the most powerful compression.
You will find that NanoZip will beat RAR file size by huge margins (sometimes even 20%).
But I agree that it is very experimental and maybe not suitable for everyday office use. Yet.

By: QuadCEM

QuadCEM — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:49:06 +0000

Nice catch, it looks like WinRAR and Squeez can write in RAR format. Both are still shareware, though. I wonder if Squeez licensed RAR out or if they’re affiliated in some way.

By: Ivica

Ivica — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:17:05 +0000

Squeez have full rar support.

http://www.speedproject.de/enu/squeez/index.html

By: QuadCEM

QuadCEM — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:02:50 +0000

Yeah I can’t deny that … 7zip has always been my favorite. I’m at least starting to use peazip to see how much I can get used to it. The *nix version of peazip looks like it’s better than the windows one I tested here (the GUI aspects of it, at least). I’d give it a try.

By: rohin

rohin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:59:15 +0000

Love the article , thanks a million man !

I personally prefer 7zip.