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Description: | toolkit. The application not only includes support for extracting virtually any kind of file
compression format, it also boasts a no-nonsense approach to reducing file sizes.
Some will argue that the application isn t as quick as WinZip at compressing files.
However, for the small lag in time difference, you end up with a significantly smaller archived file
at the end of the process with WinRAR. What s more, the application allows you to
save files into both ZIP and RAR formats, with a multitude of options for speeding up compression
times, or reducing file sizes at the expense of a few more seconds.
Although many newcomers might be put off by the sheer range of features and settings within the
program, the interface doesn t take long to get accustomed to, and if you
re still really stuck there s a simple wizard-based system that walks you through
the process of extracting or compressing. All this adds up to make WinRAR a dependable utility that
performs better than any other tool in its class.
WinRAR supports the following formats:
RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z, 7-Zip
Recent changes in WinRAR:
Added support for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names in UTF-8 format.
Added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives.
Improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names.
Ask before overwrite and Skip existing files update modes are now available in archiving
dialog
New Add to context menu option in Profile parameters dialog.
New -cp switch allows to select a compression profile in command line mode.
New Options page of archiving dialog contains the group of settings modifying the behavior
of Delete files after archiving option from General page.
WinRAR Extraction path and options dialog is now resizable.
New Update SFX script command and Update mode group of options in Update page of
Advanced SFX options dialog.
SFX script Shortcut command and Add shortcut... command in Advanced SFX options dialog
now allow to specify an icon file containing an icon associated with shortcut.
New Wipe temporary files option in Settings/Security dialog provides more secure, though
slower, way to delete temporary WinRAR files.
WinRAR and RAR display the total progress bar when unpacking a multivolume RAR archive if all
volumes are present in the same folder.
WinRAR and RAR automatically expand names of environment variables in list files.
Added support of TAR archives with non-zero extra field data.
Added support of TAR archives, which does not contain the end of archive entry consisting of
512 zero bytes.
Improved Unicode support when dragging files from WinRAR window.
Shift Tab key combination can be used in main WinRAR window to
switch the input focus between interface elements files, comment,
tree, address in reverse order.
Corrected a possible WinRAR crash when opening truncated UDF ISO files.
OS requirements for WinRAR:
OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP
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