EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Pev wrote:
> P.S. I'd personally keep away from RAR as a format in general as its
> normallly just associated with warez kiddies and isnt that widely
supported
> outside of that community.

Unfortunately you're right with that.
Rar originally is a far superior format than WinZip, especially the
multimedia compression is very nice (approx. compression ratio is around
50%).
The reason it was started being used by "warez kiddies" back then was that
it supports split files that would fit on a floppy disc, so you could
download at the (rare) places where they had internet access and take things
home with you. Or just copy it from some of your warez friends. Later on
they seem to have adopted the format for newsgroup distribution of cracked
programs, apparently because they don't do any good with larger files (and
still for the reason that floppies were the main porting medium).

Sascha