WinRAR is a
powerful archive manager (Win86/64, Linux, Mac).
RAR files can usually
compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than
ZIP files can.
WinRAR
is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional
functions to help you organize your compressed archives. It can backup
your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and
other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and
ZIP file format.
WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression.
By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than
the competition. This will save you disc space, transmission costs AND
valuable working time as well. WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files.
WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method.
The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files,
executables and object libraries
Features of WinRAR:
- Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to
compression by consistently making smaller archives than the
competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.
- WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
- WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
- WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion
of a special "Wizard" mode which allows instant access to the basic
archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This
avoids confusion in the early stages of use.
- WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.
- WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in
size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes,
unlimited.
- WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives.
- Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.
- WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack.
New history:
Version 4.10 beta 3 1. Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR could fail to display archive comments, when browsing RAR archives created with WinRAR 2.9 and older;
b) Switch -z without a parameter did not read the archive comment from stdin in console RAR version.
Version 4.10 beta 21.
Volume size in archiving and wizard dialogs can be specified as a
decimal fraction. Decimal mark is defined by Windows regional settings.
-v
command line switch also allows decimal fractions. In command line mode
the dot (.) is always used as the decimal mark. For example, -v1.5g
switch means 1.5 gigabytes.
2. "Add" command in first WinRAR beta did not allow to create a console SFX archive using WinCon.SFX module.
3. If ZIP archive contained ZIP Unicode path extra fields, the first beta could not unpack files in subfolders of such archive.
4. "CD700" and "FAT32" predefined volume sizes did not work properly.
Version 4.10 beta 1 1. WinRAR can
create ZIP archives
of practically any size. 2 GB archive size and 65535 file number ZIP
limitations of previous WinRAR versions are not valid anymore.
2.
WinRAR can create multivolume ZIP archives, which are also known as
split ZIP files. ZIP volumes have names like 'volname.zip',
'volname.z01', 'volname.z02'. Use a volume with ".zip" file extension in
all archive processing operations like starting extraction or opening
an archive. Unlike RAR volumes, ZIP volumes cannot be self-extracting.
WinRAR needs to have access to all ZIP volumes of multivolume file set
at the same time, when creating or unpacking them. So it is impossible
to create or unpack ZIP volumes on removable disks, one volume per disk.
You need to create them all in the same folder.
3. Added the high
precision file time support in ZIP archives. WinRAR can store and
extract modification, creation and last access file time in ZIP archives
with 100 nanosecond precision. You need to set "High precision
modification time" option in "Time" part of archiving dialog to store
all 3 times in archive. Set appropriate "File time" options in
"Advanced" part of extraction dialog to choose times to extract.
4.
Added support for Unicode names stored in ZIP extra field data.
Different ZIP tools store Unicode names either in file header or in ZIP
extra field and now WinRAR can correctly process both types of Unicode
names.
5. "Synchronize archive contents" option and -as command line switch are supported in ZIP format.
6. Modifications of switch -ag behavior:
a) -ag can be used with all RAR and WinRAR commands, not just with archiving only;
b) 'N' format character behavior differs in archiving and non-archiving
operations. When archiving, it is incremented until the first unused
name is found. In non-archiving operations like extracting it selects
the existing archive preceding the first unused name;
c) 'I' format
character allows to specify minutes regardless of presence and position
of 'H' (hours) in format string. It can be used instead of 'M'
(minutes), when you wish to place minutes before hours or do not need
hours at all.
7. By default, WinRAR proposes to update an archive if viewer
modified an opened file or created any new files. New "Ignore
modifications for" option in "Settings/Viewer" dialog allows to disable
such behavior. You can enter one or several file masks separated by
spaces here and WinRAR will not prompt to update an archive if file
created or modified by viewer matches one of these masks.
8. Changes
in volume size input field. Now you can select size units in the drop
down list to the right of volume size. Previous way to define size
modifiers, by entering 'k', 'm', etc. character after the numeric size
value, is also supported.
9. Changes in "Predefined sizes" in
"Define volume sizes" dialog. Floppies and ZIP disks are replaced by 5
MB and 100 MB volumes, added new entries for maximum FAT32 file size and
for Blu-ray disks.
10. New "Wipe files if password is set" option
in "Options" page of archiving dialog. If you prefer to always delete
encrypted files securely, you can enable "Wipe files if password is set"
in the default compression profile.
11. New "Wipe temporary
files/Encrypted only" option in "Settings/Security". It allows to use a
slower and more secure delete for temporary files extracted from
archives identified by WinRAR as encrypted. Quick delete is used for all
other temporary files.
12. Changes in "Convert archives" command:
a) now it is possible to convert
encrypted archives. Previously "Convert archives" command skipped them.
Though, if you still prefer to skip them, you can do it by enabling
"Skip encrypted archives" option in "Convert archives" dialog. It might
be useful if you wish to run the conversion command in unattended mode,
avoiding password prompts;
b) special "rar2" archive type, which was
specific for RAR 1.x and 2.x archives, is removed. Now "rar" archive
type controls conversion of all versions of RAR archives. Since the
convert command does not need to detect RAR archive version anymore, the
initial search for archives is performed faster, resulting in shorter
delay before displaying "Convert archives" dialog.
13. New -log[fmt][=name] switch allows to write archive and file
names to log file in archiving command for RAR and ZIP formats and also
in extracting, deleting and listing commands for RAR format. This
switch is especially useful, when you need to further process an archive
created with -ag or -v switches, because -log provides the archive name
generated by WinRAR.
14. New -@[+] switch allows to process all
parameters starting from '@' character either as file names (-@) or as
file lists (-@+).
15. "Setup program" SFX options are moved from
"General" to "Setup" page of "Advanced SFX options" dialog. Both "Run
after extraction" and "Run before extraction" are now multiline, so it
is possible to specify several setup programs for same SFX archive.
16. "SetupCode" SFX script command instructs SFX archive to wait for
termination of setup program and return the exit code of setup program
increased by 1000 as the exit code of SFX executable. GUI equivalent of
this command is "Wait and return exit code" option on "Setup" page of
"Advanced SFX options" dialog.
17. SFX does not support "S" (create
in the top level of Start Menu) "Shortcut" command mode anymore. Recent
Windows versions do not allow programs to add items to the top of Start
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