Compressing with RAR vs ZIP

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00:00 Question
00:43 Accepted answer (Score 159)
03:45 Answer 2 (Score 30)
05:43 Answer 3 (Score 16)
06:08 Answer 4 (Score 14)
06:46 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/5886/com...

Accepted answer links:
[WinRAR]: http://www.win-rar.com/
[WinZip]: http://www.winzip.com/index.htm
[7-Zip]: http://www.7-zip.org/
[live support forum at Sourceforge]: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?f...
[Vista 32-bit compatibility]: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/compati...
[ACE]: http://www.winace.com/winace.html
[so what's the deal with rar]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
[Vista 64-bit performance test reference]: http://www.exoid.com/?page_i
[gets difficult to charge you for 7-Zip]: http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/show...?
[7-Zip: The Digital Equivalent of a Sledgehammer and Crowbar]: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/datbus/...
[include p7zip-full in ubuntu-restricted-extras metapackage]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...
[Best Free File Archiver/Zip Utility]: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fre...
[“Must Have” Windows Software]: https://superuser.com/questions/1241/mus...
[“Must-Have” Open Source software]: https://superuser.com/questions/4939/mus...

Answer 2 links:
[2002 measurements]: http://www.geocities.com/eri32/texts24.h...
[leave RAR behind]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_...

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