WinRAR is a 32-bit version of RAR, the powerful archive manager.
RAR files can normally compress files up to 10 percent more than
ZIP or ARJ files.
WinRAR is a powerful archiver. WinRAR provides complete support of
RAR and ZIP files, unpacks 7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, GZ, CAB, ISO, JAR,
TAR, LZH, UUE, Z. Among WinRAR features are strong compression,
volumes, encryption, self-extracting modules, backup
facilities.
Features include strong compression, processing of non-RAR archives
(such as ZIP, ARJ, and LZH), long filename support, programmable
self-extracting archives (SFX), volumes, damaged archive repair,
authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and
encryption.
New features include added extraction only support of BZIP2, JAR
(Java ARchive) and ACE 2.0 formats, the possibility to use full
file paths such as d:pathname in the exclude lists and -x switch
when archiving, option "Append archive name to path" in the
"Settings/Compression" dialog, new 'E' parameter for -ag switch
denotes a day of year and processing of more archive formats (TAR,
GZ, ACE, UUE, CAB, ARJ, and LZH archives).
Limitations:
ยท WinRAR is shareware. Anyone may use it during a test period of 40
days. Following this test period or less, if you wish to continue
to use WinRAR, you must register.


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