RAR is a powerful tool allowing you to manage and control archive
files. Console RAR supports archives only in RAR format, the names
of which usually have a \\\".rar\\\" extension. ZIP and other formats
are not supported. Windows users may install GUI RAR version - WinRAR,
which is able to process many more archive types.
RAR features include:
* Highly sophisticated, original compression algorithm
* Special compression algorithms optimized for text, audio,
graphics data, 32 and 64-bit Intel executables
* Better compression than similar tools, using \\\'solid\\\' archiving
* Authenticity verification (registered version only)
* Self-extracting archives and volumes (SFX)
* Ability to recover physically damaged archives
* Locking, password, file order list, file security & more ...
Version 3.70 beta 7 (2007.04.16)
1. Bugs corrected:
a) -ioff switch did not work in unrar.exe;
b) WinRAR 3.70 beta failed to process volumes with malformed
file name extensions like .rar, .002, .r03. It continued to
ask for next volume even after specifying its exact name;
c) WinRAR shell extension did not work in Windows 95.