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I'll create my own test for it. It will contain 1 wallpaper, 1 pdf, 2 Office documents, 3 executables, 5 text documents, and a pdn just for kicks. I'll put them in well thought-out folders and locations for it to be archived in. I will test it with the folowing file types:

zip

rar

7z

Whatever IZArc uses

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Nope.

Okay, now I have a 21.5 MB (22,643,129 byte) folder ready to archive. I may upload one of the archives so you can see what was in it. One of them is one of the many versions of my sig (pdn) and I also have a doc of pi to 2 million places (over 6 MB).

EDIT: I just found out that IZArc just uses other compression file types and not their own.

My comparison results:

7z (7zip):   	9.12 MB (9,563,191 bytes)
7z (IZArc):	  9.12 MB (9,565,058 bytes)

RAR (WinRAR):	15.8 MB (16,581,948 bytes)

TAR (7zip):	  21.6 MB (22,656,000 bytes)
TAR (IZArk): 	21.6 MB (22,661,120 bytes)

ZIP (7zip):	  15.9 MB (16,722,871 bytes)
ZIP (IZArk):	 16.2 MB (17,075,735 bytes)



-Folder/archive contents-


Main folder:

.doc 	  (26 KB)
.exe	   (3.38 MB)
.pdn 	  (904 KB)
.png 	  (3.14 MB)
.txt   	(5.26 KB)
.txt 	  (39.5 KB)
.txt 	  (424 KB)
folder1	(3.39 MB)
folder2	(10.2 MB)

folder1:

.exe	   (3.38 MB)
.txt	   (3.27 KB)
.txt	   (3.9 KB)

folder2:

.exe	   (3.38 MB)
.doc	   (6.83 MB)
.pdf	   (70.9 KB)

7z wins. Better file type and better program to compress it on.

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It may support it, but it doesn't archive with it.

ARC is a file format by SEA (System Enhancement Associates) that was very popular before Phil Katz's introduction of the ZIP format.

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I like 7-zip. So far, I've never found an archive that I couldn't open with it, (not counting passworded ones).

I never use the GUI (it looks like a 10 year old made it) but the shell extensions it adds to the right-click menus are oh-so-handy!

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Well I actually tried all of the options and the ones in the results were the smallest ones I could get. Though I can say that (depending on the settings) 7zip is slower than IZArc.

BTW, 7zip has twice as many options as IZArc.

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