RAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ and others. RAR offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a better price as well as supporting long file names, disk spanning and self-extracting file creation. RAR introduces an original compression algorithm.
Applications such as Winrar can be used to create RAR files. RAR is a compression format, and the files within a RAR can be extracted or viewed using AnyZip.
Compressed archive Common
The rar format is used for archival purposes.
archive or backup application
A 'rar' file is a type of segmented, compresed file
WINRAR 2.0 FOR WIN95/NT WINRAR
An archiving program, similar in concept (but different in detail) to PKZIP. It gets used on a.b.p.j-g to compress the video clips prior to posting them on the newsgroup.
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...
In computing, RAR is a proprietary file format for data compression and archiving.
One of several kinds of compression types. see: Zip
A popular file archive format similar to ZIP. Most often used on Apple/Mac systems.
RAR is a proprietary file format for data compression and archiving. The RAR format was developed by Eugene Roshal (hence the name RAR: Roshal ARchive), who was born on March 10, 1972 in Russia and graduated from Chelyabinsk Technical University. He also developed programs for packing and unpacking RAR files, originally for DOS, and later ported to other platforms. The encoder (the main Windows version known as WinRAR) is distributed as shareware, but Roshal has released the decoder's source code under a license that allows free distribution and modification, on condition that it is not reverse-engineered to build a compatible encoder. The encoding method is held to be proprietary, but compatible programs for decompression are available for several platforms, such as the open-source 7-Zip.