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Reply 20 of 22, by appiah4

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Whatever the hell happened to ARJ over the years, by the way? Why did it disappear? It was so much better than ZIP.

Reply 21 of 22, by dr_st

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ARJ is still out there, just nobody uses it. I think it lost the battle on compression rate and features to RAR/7Z, and lost the battle on simplicity and ubiquitousness to ZIP.

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Reply 22 of 22, by Grzyb

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ARJ saw no real improvement for decades now, its creator at some point wanted to replace it with a new program - JAR (not to be confused with Java ARchiver), but it failed to get traction.

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