dosraider -
"As some 100 topics a day:
What must I download? I don't understand all this stuff 'cause I'm compy n00b. Can you PLZ give me a beginners explanation? From A to Z in easy steps. KTHXBAI."
dosraider -
"And check your UHarc facts again, you missed a lot it seems.(Especially how to run it in a comm window)."
To unzip a .7zip file, first you must download 7Zip. Open your internet browser, and go to
http://www.7-zip.org. Once you are there, click on the "Download" link on the left side of the screen, it's three lines below "Home". If you can't figure that out, go to the appropriate link that follows for which operating system you are using. (Most likely you are using Windows if you don't know what your using.)
7zip for Windows download;
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z457.exe
Detailed instructions for downloading 7zip for other operating systems can be found at this page;
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
Once 7zip is downloaded, start the program and follow the instructions to install it. After 7zip is installed, all you need to do is double-click on the archive you want to open with it. If you need further instructions, feel free to ask.
P.S. I grew up using DOS and Windows 3.1, I know what a window and command prompt is. I used the command prompt version of UHarc, using maximum compression, and it took precisely 7 min 46 sec to compress MDK. If I am missing something, feel free to share.
E.O.F. -
"If you really want your actions to have any kind of sense, talk to Kosta. He's the only one in this whole forum who can actually do something for you."
Very well, I'll look-up Kosta and talk to him about it.
r.u.s.s. -
"you know, the results may and will differ on what are you trying to pack"
Yes, of course. Different data will compress at different ratios.
Sebatianos -
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole idea of switching archive types was to lighten the bandwide usage... how does having double archives (in both format) help?"
That's a good question. The archives are hosted on Abandonia, but the only difference would be that instead of having one choice, they could download a larger .zip archive or a smaller .7zip. The file would only be downloaded once (If the person was being responsible.), but if they downloaded the .7zip instead of the .zip, they would have saved Abandonia over 24 MB of bandwidth in the case of MDK.
Hopefully they wouldn't download both the .zip and the .7zip, since that would definately not help us any. But I don't see why they would do that, unless they couldn't figure out how to open one of them. But, hopefully they would download 7Zip first and figure out how to use it before they downloaded anything from here. I'll try to contact Kosta about all of this.