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WinRAR - RAR Compression Tool
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This chapter describes:
- What Is WinRAR?
- Downloading and Installing WinRAR
- Adding Files To a RAR File
- Extracting RAR Files
- Setting Password in RAR Files
- Creating Multi-Volume RAR Files
- Windows Explorer Context Menu
- Compressing Files into ZIP Format
- Running WinRAR in a Command Window
What Is WinRAR?
WinRAR is a tool developed by Alexandar Roshal to handle RAR files and other compression formats.
It supports the following features described in its help document:
- Complete support of RAR and ZIP 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.
Downloading and Installing WinRAR
1. Set your Web browser to http://www.rarlab.com/ home page.
2. Download an evaluation copy of WinRAR, wrar342.exe.
The file size is about 1.1 MB.
3. Run wrar342.exe. It will guide you to finish the installation. Make sure to install it
in c:\local\winrar directory.
4. Go to Start > Programs > WinRAR > WinRAR. The "Please register" dialog box shows up.
5. Click the "Close" button to return to normal WinRAR window.
If you see the current file directory tree shows up in WinRAR window, you know your installation is
done correctly.
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