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In computing, RAR is a compressed archive format developed by Eugene Roshal. His main product is WinRAR, which is shareware. Pocket RAR , a version of the RAR archiver for the Pocket PC platform, is available as freeware.Eugene Roshal has also released source code for decoding RAR archives, under a licence that allows free distribution and modification, but forbids its use to build a compatible encoder. The encoding method is held to be proprietary.
One of the advantages of the RAR format is that it excels at producing split volumes. Few other compression formats have the ability not only to process volumes, but do it well.
The file extension is .rar. The MIME-Type is application/x-rar-compressed.
1 See also
- ZIP
- 7-Zip
- CAB
- LHA
- DGCAIn computing, DGCA is a freeware compression utility created in 2001 by Shin-ichi Tsuruta (, Shin-ichi Tsuruta). DGCA is also a compressed archive format, the next generation of GCA'. DGCA has higher compression than ZIP, Strong Password, Unicode Filename
- GCAGCA can also refer to giant cell arteritis, a form of vasculitis. In computing, GCA is a freeware compression utility created in 2000 by Shin-ichi Tsuruta (, Shin-ichi Tsuruta). GCA is a compressed archive format. It has higher compression capabilities th
- archive formats
2 External links
- WinRAR
- MacRAR
- UnRarX UnRar for Mac OS X
- RAR add-ons – UnRAR for various platforms, including Eugene Roshal's source code
- Unrarlib – a library for decoding RAR (version 2) archives based on the Roshal's code, might be GPL compatible
- 7-Zip is an LGPL licensed utility that supports 7zIn computing, 7z is an archive format which allows data compression using a number of compression algorithms. The format was initially implemented by the 7-Zip archiver but the file format is public and 7-Zip's implementation of it is publicly available u, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJARJ is a tool for creating compressed file archives. It was conceived by Robert K. Jung ARJ probably stands for A rchiver R obert J ung). It is no longer in wide use (still supported though) on many platforms. Its main use was in the BBS era, since it cou, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO , RPM and DEB.
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