Talk:ARJ

Some incorrect and some questionable statements

I have found one incorrect statement and a few statements of questionable validity.

I will correct the false one, which is (in indirect quotation):

• "ARJ was popular because of its capability to make multi-volume archives." - ARJ could create mutli-volume archives, but PKZIP also could. But ARJ's implementation was much simpler and more inituitive.

The questionable statements, which I do not dare to alter:

• "ARJ also allowed the user to alter the level of an archive's compression, making it popular on small packet mail networks..." - It is not clear if the writer meant that ARJ could modify existing archive's compression level (I doubt that this could ever be possible without re-packaging the archive), or that it simply had multiple choices for compression level when making a brand new archive (virtually every mainstream archiver had/has that).
• "A very interesting feature which seems to be missing from all the other popular archivers (March 2006), is the ability to add, delete and/or modify files in a multi-volume archive..." - I have checked with WinRAR and it indeed can not do this with its RAR format. But someone should verify if ARJ really can do it.

       -- Nihad Hamzic 08:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation needed?

A new brand of Chinese airplanes has been introduced recently. Perhaps we need to create some disambiguation for ARJ airplanes? Marcos [Tupungato] (talk) 20:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

I think this will be the main (most notable) meaning for a while to come. If ARJ airplanes becomes notable enough to warrant an article, put one of the hatnote templates on this page linking that article. Shinobu (talk) 03:53, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

ZIP-Archive?

"In recent times, other alternatives to the ZIP archive, such as RAR or 7-Zip have surpassed ARJ in market share;" Not only does this need a citation, as indicated, why is it talking about ZIP-Archives in this article about ARJ-Archives? Xandaros (talk) 14:54, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

JAR

Possible extension to this page: The same author later created JAR, which was a successor to ARJ. The JAR format (with extension .j and not to be confused with "Java Archvie", which are also called JAR) was much less widespread, but achieved much higher compression ratio. Probably JAR doesn't deserve its own article, but it should be at least mentioned here. It's not easy to find information about is, because "JAR" is widely understood to refer to "Java Archive". Unfortunately, the official website seems broken right now and the navigation for "JAR" doesn't work, but it should point to http://www.arjsoftware.com/jar.htm ~2025-31689-96 (talk) 12:17, 7 November 2025 (UTC)