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WinRAR
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WinRAR 3.80 | | Developed by | Eugene Roshal, Alexander Roshal |
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| Latest release | 3.80 / 2008-9-30; 403 days ago |
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| Written in | C++ |
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| Operating system | Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux (Wine required for GUI), OS/2 |
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| Available in | Multilingual (46+ languages) |
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| Development status | Current |
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| Type | File archiver |
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| License | Commercial proprietary, Shareware |
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| Website | Primary: www.rarlab.com
Secondary: www.win-rar.com |
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WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal, and first released around 1995.[1] It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, because the encoding method is held to be proprietary.
[edit] Developer
The current developer is Eugene Roshal, while his brother Alexander Roshal is engaged in running the business behind the software.
[edit] Features
WinRAR supports the following features:
- Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z archives. Future versions of WinRAR are planned to include 7z creation.[2]
- The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.
- Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.
- Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.
- Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.
[edit] Version history
Below is a summary of version information.
- Since version 2.9, the new RAR3 archive format is implemented. The new compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR.
- Since version 3.50 beta 1, WinRAR adds support for interface skins and themes.
- Since version 3.50, WinRAR supports Windows XP x64.[3]
- Since version 3.60 beta 1, WinRAR includes a multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple, dual-core, or hyperthreading-enabled CPUs.
- Since version 3.70 beta, WinRAR features support for Windows Vista.[4]
- Version 3.70 (May 30, 2007)
- Version 3.71 (September 24, 2007)
- Version 3.80 (September 30, 2008)[5]
[edit] WinRAR Unplugged
WinRAR Unplugged is a portable version of WinRAR that does not require installation or create dependencies on the host computer.
[edit] See also
- Comparison of file archivers
[edit] References
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