


RAR archives are often used for transferring or storing files since they store files in a decreased size. It's compressed using a high compression ratio as compared to a typical ZIP compression and consolidates an algorithm of proprietary compression used by other compressors such as 7-Zip for 7Z files. The RAR term is an abbreviation for Roshal Archive.Ī RAR file is an archive that includes multiple files compressed using RAR compression.

In 1993, it was developed by Eugene Roshal (a Russian software engineer) and the software was licensed via win.rar. RAR is the proprietary archive file format that provides its support for file spanning, error recovery, and data compression. Next → ← prev Extract RAR File in Ubuntu What is RAR File?
