Exe / 7z

[Lerster]

I hate these formats for the files, on the site....

i wish it was rar....

or tar....

bah

[Canadian*Sniper]

rar stands for RetARded Unix systems (as far as I know) can't open them.

tar isn't compression, it's just used to group a bunch of items. I think you mean tar.gz.

7z = best compression out there. Plus it's open source and ,regardless to what Baker says, I think it has the best GUI on windows. It's clean and simple.

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EXE - Ummmmm welcome to windows? Your quake runs off an exe ;o

[Baker]

7-Zip opens in RAR, so what's the problem?

Most things come in EXE and 7-Zip mostly for the following reason:

1. About 35% of players don't know where stuff goes. I don't feel like answering "where do maps go?" or helping people that screw it up. The EXE will not allow you to mess it up; it always works (notice the absolute lack of questions/complaints/etc .. despite high volume). Consequentially, no one has this problem anymore due to the EZ Installers.

2. Some people use Linux or something non-Windows or are smart enough to do it themselves. 7-Zip encourages the honor system. The people that are too computer illiterate to unzip maps or sounds into the right place are probably not going to have 7-Zip, so the ones that would screw up unzipping a file will at worst down the 7-Zip and then be confused and then download the EXE.

Few remember this -- because when things work perfectly everyone forgets the problems -- but it used to be a major annoyance to help people use custom maps.

Now everyone has custom maps and no one asks any questions about where they go. = Perfect world. :d

[Net-Tyme]

WINRAR opens those file I believe. But so far the zips Baker creates are correct and do go in the proper places. You just have to make sure your quake is in C or you point it to the correct quake location.

[Lerster]

guess i forgot 7z is openable by winrar.... oops.

nvm then, i just didn't liek the exes b/c u can't view their insides.

[spooker]

i can view your insides lerster

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Everyone knows RAR > ZIP,ACE,7ZIP,ETC,ETC

[Lerster]

i can view your insides lerster

does that mean you love me?

As i'm assuming your not being passionate enough to mean sexual, but as in murder... so you love me enough to murder me? O_o

Final question. *licks lips, would you at least ^_-*

Hah. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

Btw.... "why sp00k, i didn't know you cared. ^_-"

[golden_boy]

rar stands for RetARded Unix systems (as far as I know) can't open them.

tar isn't compression, it's just used to group a bunch of items. I think you mean tar.gz.

7z = best compression out there. Plus it's open source and ,regardless to what Baker says, I think it has the best GUI on windows. It's clean and simple.

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EXE - Ummmmm welcome to windows? Your quake runs off an exe ;o

Sure Unix can open rar files. I have an unrar on my system which is often used due to retarded windows users RARing files.

Google for Unrar 3.60 and Alexander Roshal. It's a command line program like unzip, dzip, lha, 7z, tar etc.

Unix can pretty much open anything. Even ACE files. (not that I ummm... ah well.)

Bzip2 has a much better compression ratio than Gzip, that's why you find many .tar.bz2 files nowadays. Who needs 7z.

I think by EXE they mean self-extracting Zip archives (totally misleading extension of course.)

greetz.

[Canadian*Sniper]

I'll look it up. Thanks

[spooker]

does that mean you love me?

As i'm assuming your not being passionate enough to mean sexual, but as in murder... so you love me enough to murder me? O_o

Final question. *licks lips, would you at least ^_-*

Hah. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

Btw.... "why sp00k, i didn't know you cared. ^_-"

lol. lets make love

[Lerster]

lol. lets make love

*yiffs spooker*

AAAaargh, *gets spooker wet and ready, puts the latex on him and rides him till he cries for release*

*drinks every last drop....*

Well, i think we sucessfully, destroyed the quake forums and made it into XXX forums. ~ lol

[Canadian*Sniper]

hah, exactly the reason I blocked and deleted ler from my msn list

[spooker]

"YIFFS"?
wtf?
well whatever the hell she just did, im spent

[Fuzznut]

*yiffs spooker*

AAAaargh, *gets spooker wet and ready, puts the latex on him and rides him till he cries for release*

*drinks every last drop....*

Well, i think we sucessfully, destroyed the quake forums and made it into XXX forums. ~ lol

Hahahahaaaa!!


Sounds like TRUE LOVE to me.