What is WinRAR

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WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of the RAR archiver - a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage and control archive files. There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating environments: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OS/2, MacOS X.

There are two versions of RAR for Windows:


·   Version with graphical user interface - WinRAR.exe;  

·   Command line console (text mode) version - Rar.exe.  
 

 WinRAR features


·   Complete support of RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives;  
·   Highly sophisticated, original compression algorithm;  
·   Special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression;  
·   Shell interface including drag-and-drop facility and wizard;  
·   Command line interface;  
·   Non RAR archives (7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z) management;  

·   Solid archiving, which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files;  
·   Multivolume archives;  
·   Creation of self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules;  
·   Recovering physically damaged archives;  
·   Recovery volumes allowing to reconstruct missing parts of multivolume archives.  

·   Unicode support in file names;  
·   Other service functions, such as encryption, archive comments, error logging, etc.