What is WinRAR?
WinRAR is a competing product to WinZip; both products
compress/decompress and archive files. Files compressed with WinRAR
typically have the .rar extension, as opposed to
.zip for WinZip archives. WinRAR can also create and
decompress a WinZip archived file.
Like later versions of WinZip, WinRAR can create archives in multiple
parts; that is, it not only can compress a file but can split it up
into smaller parts. In WinZip, this is called a split Zip file; in
WinRAR, it's called a multipart or multivolume archive. When this is
done, the smaller RAR files are given the following extensions, in
this order: .rar, .r00, .r01,
and so forth. To decompress a multipart archive, make sure all the
component files are in the same directory and double-click the
.rar file. WinRAR will automatically find all the other files
without you having to select them, and assemble the final decompressed
file from them.
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Last modified on May 13, 2009.
