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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?RG9u4oCZdA==?= Bother With Proprietary .RAR Compression
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 01:22:58 -0000 (UTC)
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Every now and then, I come across download archives in this .RAR format. 
The formats have different versions: v4 and lower can be extracted with 
Free Software tools like unar <https://theunarchiver.com/command-line>, 
while v5 needs a non-Free tool.

A few times now, when I come across a v5 RAR archive, I try recompressing 
it with 7-zip <https://7-zip.org/>, and so far, the .7z version of archive 
has always been smaller. And 7-zip is Free Software!

So there is no point to using the proprietary format: avoid it.