Eugene Roshal (russian: Евгений Лазаревич Рошал, translit=Yevgeny Lazarevich Roshal; born 1972) is a Russian

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Roshal is best known as the developer of: * RAR

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(1993) *

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 ...

file archiver (1995) * FAR file manager (1996) The RAR compression algorithm is officially owned by his elder brother Alexander, because Eugene Roshal has "no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time."

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