In the good old days, we need RAR so we could split the file into multiple floppy disk, now simply known as the Save Icon. We also prefer it over zip simply due to better compression ratio. I wonder do we still need these trade offs or we could simply go back to Zip or other self extracting compression format. I don't think RAR is even natively supported on Mac.
o11c 3 hours ago |
.rar should be avoided since support in open-source extractors is rare (to my knowledge, the sole implementation comes from The-Unarchiver, `unar`). .7z is usually the way to go if not doing something fancy like casync.