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1. What is a RAR file.
RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR
files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed
form. After you downloaded RAR file from Internet, you need to unpack
its contents in order to use it.
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2. How to handle RAR files.
WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR files, so you may both
create and unpack them. If you installed WinRAR on your computer and
downloaded RAR file from Internet, you may double click on RAR file
icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files, press “Extract To”
button, enter a destination path and press “OK”. Another way
is to click on the RAR file in Explorer using the right mouse button.
If you enabled “Shell integration” option when installing
WinRAR, the file context menu will contain “Extract to …”
item.
Some RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you
can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes.
They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, …, or
.part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, …, etc. If you need to
unpack volumes, place all them to the same folder and start extraction
from the first volume.
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3. RAR versus ZIP.
Comparing to ZIP file format, RAR provides a number of advanced features:
more convenient multipart (multivolume) archives, tight compression
including special solid, multimedia and text modes, strong AES-128 encryption,
recovery records helping to repair an archive even in case of physical
data damage, Unicode support to process non-English file names and a
lot more.
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