WinRAR is Windows version of the RAR archiver - a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage and control archive files. There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating environments: Windows, Linux,FreeBSD, Mac OS X. There are two versions of RAR for Windows: Version with graphical user interface - WinRAR.exe; Command line console (text mode) version - Rar.exe. WinRAR and WinRAR self-extracting modules require Windows XP or later. WinRAR features Complete support of RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives; Highly sophisticated, original compression algorithm; Special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression; Shell interface including drag-and-drop facility and wizard ; Command line interface ; Non RAR archives (7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z ) management; Solid archiving, which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files; Multivolume archives ; Creation of self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules; Recovering physically damaged archives; Recovery volumes allowing to reconstruct missing parts of multivolume archives. Unicode support in file names; Other service functions, such as encryption , archive comments , error logging, etc.
