Hi,   
      
   On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 4:53:40 AM UTC-5, George Neuner wrote:   
   > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:11:15 +0000, Robert Prins   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > Maybe RAR does fly under Google's radar, but I'd hesitate to go that   
   > route because there have been so many problems with RAR over the   
   > years.  I can recall several versions that were so buggy as to be   
   > unusable, and I have seen perfectly good archives fail to unpack with   
   > RAR itself, but unpack successfully with, e.g., 7zip.   
      
   It's somewhat niche, but some people still swear by RAR.   
      
   > There also is the issue that so few people have it available.  Unzip   
   > at least comes in the box with Windows and Linux, but most people have   
   > no idea what to do with a RAR.   
      
   UnRAR isn't exactly Free/libre (which is a small, but noticeable,   
   annoyance), but it does come freely with sources.   
      
   There are also precompiled binaries of it for various platforms:   
      
   http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm   
      
   > I personally gave up on RAR somewhere around 3.6.  Maybe it's better   
   > now, but for better or worse, Zip has all but conquered the world.   
      
   .ZIP has so many variations and additions that it's hardly standard,   
   but indeed a subset of it is still very popular.   
      
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