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RAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ, and others. It offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a cheaper price as well as supporting long file names, disk spanning, and self-extracting file creation.
Version 3.60 beta 41. Recovery speed improved when repairing heavily damaged archives using the recovery record.2. If volume size field contained a value exceeding 4 GB,it was changed to wrong value after switching to any other page of archiving dialog and returning back to "General" page.3. Update (’u') command did not work properly with some high ASCII names in beta 3.

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RAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ, and others. RAR offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a cheaper price as well as supporting long file names, disk spanning, and self-extracting file creation.What’s new

1. Previous beta could fail to create high ASCII folder names, when unpacking RAR archive in non-Unicode operating systems (Windows 9x).

2. Some of truncated GZIP archives caused the previous beta to stop responding.

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A JAPANESE JOURNALIST said that an investigation he’s conducted shows that using SSE2 multimedia extensions with the AMD Opteron makes the microprocessor slow to a crawl.Takeo Noguchi. at ASCII Plus Magazine, analysed the Opteron 242 as a microprocessor for a single chip machine, and said that a 1.6GHz chip, according to AMD< slightly outperform a Xeon/Pentium 4 running at 2.8GHz.

He told the INQUIRER that he measured the execution time to encode DV-format AVI files to MPEG, WMV, Divx and Xvid. He found that for encoding DivX and Xvid, Opteron 242’s performance is roughly equivalent to a Pentium 4-2.8GHz, which matches the expectation from SPEC int/fp results.

But, he added, using well known JapaneseMPEG 2 encoding software TMPGenc ((http://www.pegasys-inc.com/), the Opteron’s performance is a staggering 30% lower than a Pentium 4-2.8GHz.

He said: “At first I supposed it was because TMPGEnc is thoroughly optimised for the Pentium 4″.

But he checked the results from SiSoftware Sandra 2003, and found to his surprise that its multimedia integer performance is much lower than the Athlon XP, the architectural cousin of the Opteron.

His results are as follows:

Sandra Multimedia Int

Opteron 242 (1.6GHz) 6300

Pentium 4-2.8GHz 11148

Athlon XP-2600 11614

But it’s not all bad news for the Opteron. He said that well known Japanese archiving software GCA (http://www.emit.jp/gca/gca.html) compresses WAV files a staggering 50% faster than P4-2.8GHz, equivalent to a Pentium 4.4GHz chip, if such a beast existed.

Source : Inquirer

The compression utility WinRAR is a powerful archive manager with support for packing RAR and ZIP archives and unpacking RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR and ISO archives. You may use it to backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, decompress files downloaded from the Internet and create your own file archives. There are RAR versions for Windows, Linux, MacOS X, DOS, OS/2 and FreeBSD.

Whats new:

Version 3.11

• 1. “Convert” command is able to process .tgz archives.
• 2. GUI SFX modules provide more detailed diagnostic messages

  for CRC errors or file create errors.

• 3. Command line RAR returns the exit code 9 in case of file

  create errors.

• 4. Bugs fixed:

a) “Convert” command failed to convert archives in folders

with non-English (high ASCII) names;

b) WinRAR could crash when attempting to display too long

file type inside of archive;

c) -ag command line switch placed an incorrect value to minutes

field;

d) options “Put each file to separate archive” and “Turn PC off

when done”, if set together, switched the computer off after

creating the first archive;

e) SFX module could display unnecessary “http-equiv …” string

when started under Windows 95.

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