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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by wongarsu on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:46PM (#36234063)
7-zip's GUI is basically an incomplete WinRar clone, and WinRar has a couple more features. Most notably recovery records to be able to recover from mild bit rot, but it can also preserve more NTFS attributes of your files (saving alternate streams, security records, turning hard links into links) and can optionally respect the Archive attribute of files (archiving only files with the attribute set, clearing the attribute after, optionally deleting them).

It's a very solid archival program. I wouldn't recommend that everyone runs out and buys it, and I use 7zip more than Winrar, but it does have some advantages, especially on Windows.

Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by ComodoHacker on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:23AM (#36238807)
Not only that, WinRAR is also well optimized and polished. 7-zip development has basically stopped because no one pays for it.
Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by Timon3 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:52AM (#36238992)
They just released a new beta last month. Doesn't seem very "stopped" to me.
Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by ComodoHacker on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:05AM (#36239092)
After almost a year since last stable.
Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by Timon3 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:12AM (#36239140)
Then call it slow development, not stopped. A stable a year ago and a beta a month ago is more active than most software out there, for which development literally stopped.

Or do you have any affiliation with WinRAR?

Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by ComodoHacker on Thursday June 08, 2023 @06:47AM (#36239763)
No affiliation, I just use both and compare.
Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by unnouinceput on Thursday June 08, 2023 @06:14AM (#36239526)
"...and WinRar has a couple more features"

Like the one that 7zip has AES256 encryption and WinRar can't open it, that one?