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.RAR - File Extension for Compressed Files
File extension RAR is used for RAR compressed files. A RAR sample file is provided. Free software for creating and opening RAR files are listed.
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File Extension: .RAR
MIME Type: application/x-rar-compressed
File Content: Compressed files
What is RAR? RAR is a short name for Roshal ARchive, a file format used to archiving files with data compression. RAR was created by Eugene Roshal in 1993.
Some technical notes on RAR file format:
RAR is the file extension for RAR files.
RAR files are binary files. Here are the first 64 bytes of a sample RAR file dumped in HEX values:
52 61 72 21 1a 07 00 cf 90 73 00 00 0d 00 00 00 Rar......s...... 00 00 00 00 22 2f 74 20 80 2b 00 4f 00 00 00 53 ......t....O...S 00 00 00 02 e8 3e 26 96 e3 a6 26 38 1d 33 0b 00 ...........8.3.. 20 00 00 00 73 61 6d 70 6c 65 2e 68 74 6d 6c 09 ....sample.html.
As you can see, "Rar" is the magic number used to identify ZIP files.
RAR sample file: Click sample.rar to download.
RAR files can be created and unpacked by many compression software:
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