The Intel 386, originally released as 80386 and later renamed i386, is a 32-bit microprocessor introduced in 1985. The first versions had 275,000 transistors[RSX DPMI extender.]
* RAR v2.50 is the last version that supports MS-DOS and OS/2 on 16-bit x86 CPUs such as Intel 8086
The 8086 (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978, when it was released. The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allowi ...
, 8088
The Intel 8088 ("''eighty-eighty-eight''", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086. Introduced on June 1, 1979, the 8088 has an eight-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers and ...
, and 80286
The Intel 80286 (also marketed as the iAPX 286 and often called Intel 286) is a 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced on February 1, 1982. It was the first 8086-based CPU with separate, non-multiplexed address and data buses and also the fi ...
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Creating RAR files
RAR files can be created only with commercial software WinRAR
WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH. It can create and view archives in RAR (file format), RAR or Zip (file format), ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous archive file formats. To en ...
(Windows), RAR for Android, command-line
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RAR (Windows, MS-DOS, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD), and other software that has written permission from Alexander Roshal or uses copyrighted code under license from Roshal. The software license agreements forbid reverse engineering.
Third-party software for extracting RAR files
Several programs can unpack the file format.
* RARLAB distributes the C++
C++ (pronounced "C plus plus") is a high-level general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or "C with Classes". The language has expanded significan ...
source code and binaries for a command-line unrar
program. The license permits its use to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives, without having to pay a fee. It is not a free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
license.
* 7-Zip
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z, ...
, a free and open-source
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program, starting from 7-Zip version 15.06 beta can unpack RAR5 archives, using the RARLAB unrar code.
* PeaZip
PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, Linux, MacOS and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible au ...
is a free RAR unarchiver, licensed under the LGPL
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, it runs as a RAR extractor on Linux, macOS, and Windows, with a GUI. PeaZip supports both pre-RAR5 .rar files, and files in the new RAR5 format.
* The Unarchiver
The Unarchiver is a proprietary freeware data decompression utility, which supports more formats than Archive Utility (formerly known as BOMArchiveHelper), the built-in archive unpacker program in macOS. It can also handle filenames in various cha ...
is a proprietary software unarchiver for RAR and other formats. It runs on macOS, and the command-line version, , also runs on Windows and on Linux, and is free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
licensed under the LGPL
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own ...
. It supports all versions of the RAR archive format, including RAR3 and RAR5.[The Unarchiver Website]
contains unar. Accessed 5 February 2013.
* UNRARLIB (UniquE RAR File Library)[ was an obsolete free software unarchiving library called "unrarlib", licensed under the ]GPL
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general us ...
. It could only decompress archives created by RAR versions prior to 2.9; archives created by RAR 2.9 and later use different formats not supported by this library. The original development-team ended work on this library in 2007.[ ][ ][
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* libarchive, a free and open source library for reading and writing a variety of archive formats, supports all RAR versions including RAR5. The code was written from scratch using RAR's "technote.txt" format description.
Other uses of ''rar''
The filename extension ''rar'' is also used by the unrelated Resource Adapter Archive file format.
See also
* .cbr
A comic book archive or comic book reader file (also called sequential image file) is a type of archive file for the purpose of sequential viewing of images, commonly for comic books. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay sequential image vie ...
* List of archive formats
This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files.
Archiving only
Compression only
Archiving and compression
Data recovery
Comparison Containers and compression
Notes
While the original ...
* Comparison of archive formats
This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files.
Archiving only
Compression only
Archiving and compression
Data recovery
Comparison Containers and compression
Notes
While the origin ...
* Comparison of file archivers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. They are neither all-inclusive nor are some entries necessarily up to date. Unless ...
* Data corruption
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted. ...
, Bit rot Bit rot may refer to:
* " Bit Rot", a short story by Charles Stross
* Data rot, the decay of electromagnetic charge in a computer's storage
** Disc rot, the deterioration of optical media such as DVDs and CDs
* Software rot
Software rot (bit ro ...
, Disc rot
Disc rot is the tendency of compact disc, CD, DVD, or other optical discs to become unreadable because of physical or chemical deterioration. The causes include oxidation of the reflective layer, physical scuffing and abrasion of disc, reactions wi ...
References
External links
*
RARLAB FTP download website
current and old versions of WinRAR and RAR
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Computer-related introductions in 1993
Archive formats
Russian inventions