Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In computing, RAR is a compressed archive format. RAR was developed by Eugene Roshal. His main product is WinRAR, which is free for trial use only. He has also released source code for decoding RAR archives, under a licence that allows free distribution and modification, but forbids its use to build a compatible encoder. The encoding method is held to be proprietary. Table of contents 1 File extension 2 MIME-Type 3 Related Terms 4 External Links File extension .rar MIME-Type application/x-rar-compressed Related Terms ZIP - 7-Zip - CAB - LHA - DGCA - GCA External Links WinRAR MacRAR RAR add-ons - UnRAR for various platforms, including Eugene Roshal's source code unrarlib - a library for decoding RAR (version 2) archives based on the Roshal's code. 7-Zip is an LGPL licenced utility that supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.