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re: What is a file ending in "rar"
Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 1:08 am
Posted by Mark
(1810 messages posted)
RAR - The file extension of a type of compressed file created by the WinRAR program
by RarSoft. It is considered by many to be more versatile than other compression
programs on the market such as WinZip, has a better compression ratio, and is used
by many to send archived data over the Internet due to its superior compression in
many circumstances.
On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:49 am, Paul wrote:
>What file with the suffix "rar" and how does one open and use it.
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re: What is a file ending in "rar"
Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 3:43 am
Posted by borg
(2664 messages posted)
It's a RAR archive. You can download a trial for WinRAR here.
If you don't want to buy it, you can keep the "unrar.exe" command-line utility from
its installation directory. That is free (and legal) but you can't create or modify
RAR archives with it, just extract. The same could be done with a graphical free
archiver: 7-zip.
On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:49 am, Paul wrote:
>What file with the suffix "rar" and how does one open and use it.
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