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What's new with
WinRAR?
WinRAR Benefits:
Using WinRAR puts you ahead
of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistantly making
smaller archives than the competition, often this can be achieved
faster than the competition as well, saving disc space, transmission
costs AND valuable working time.
o When you purchase a WinRAR license you are buying
a license to the COMPLETE technology, no need to purchase add-ons
to create Self-extracting files, it's all included. One price, one
payment, ONCE.
o The purchase of a WinRAR license is now, with
the new price level for release 3.00, the most outstanding value
it has ever been. Compare feature for feature, benefit for benefit
at a price level which has not been seen before.
o You also receive the benefit of a life-time
of use of the WinRAR archiver. No upgrade fee to pay. When a new
release is made, simply download and install, your license is valid
for life.
o WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers
with the inclusion of a special "Wizard" mode which allows
instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple
Questiona and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early
stages of use.
o WinRAR makes it easy for you send files, compressed,
by e-mail. There is no need for separate programs or separate steps
to handle this task.
o WinRAR introduces yet another FIRST, being the
first main-stream archiver to bring you the benefits of recovery
volumes. Recovery volumes allow you to recover a completely missing
volume from a multi-volume set
o WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength
archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with
a key of 128 bits
o WinRAR features, see below, are constantly being
agressively developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack. WinRAR was
the 1st to bring you integrated Solid archiving, the 1st to bring
you archive sizes and file counts limited only by the underlying
Operating system. The 1st to bring you an archiver in multiple languages.
WinRAR will continue to lead in the development of serious and important
features which will enhance your archiving experience.
WinRAR Features:
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WinRAR
GUI runs on Windows 9x/NT/2000 and is available in many languages,
Rar command-line (console mode) versions run on Linux, BeOS,
DOS, OS/2 and various flavors of Unix.
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WinRAR
introduces an original compression algorithm. It allows higher
compression ratios than other PC archiving tools, especially
on executable files, Object libraries, large text files, etc.
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WinRAR
offers an optional, compression algorithm highly optimized for
multimedia data.
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WinRAR
supports files and archives up to 8,589 BILLION GIGABYTES in
size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes,
unlimited.
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WinRAR
provides complete support for ZIP archives.
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WinRAR
offers new facilities and features such as a graphic interactive
interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line
interface.
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WinRAR
provides functionality for creating a 'solid' archives which
can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common
methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
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WinRAR
offers the ability to create and change SFX archives using default
and external SFX modules.
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WinRAR
offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.
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WinRAR
offers a number of service functions, such as setting a password,
adding archive and file comments. Even physically damaged archives
may be repaired and an archive may be locked to prevent further
changes. Authenticity information may be added for additional
security and WinRAR will store information on the last update
and name of the archive.
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WinRAR
provides ANSI esc-sequence support in comments. This allows
color comments and other ANSI features without the need for
an ANSI-driver.
RAR History
15 May 2002
WinRAR 3.00 official release.
20 Jan 2002
WinRAR 3.00 first public beta.
30 Sep 2001
WinRAR 2.90 official release.
15 Aug 2001
WinRAR 2.90 second public beta.
06 Mar 2001
WinRAR 2.80 maintainance release for Windows, Linux, BeOS &
DOS-32.
11 Dec 2000
WinRAR 2.80 second public beta
24 Nov 2000
WinRAR 2.80 first public beta
20 June 2000
WinRAR 2.71 maintainance release for Windows, Linux, BeOS &
DOS-32.
19 May 2000
WinRAR 2.70 official release for Windows, Linux, BeOS & DOS-32.
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23 Feb 2000
WinRAR 2.70 public beta for Windows, Linux, BeOS and DOS-32.
02 Nov 1999
WinRAR 2.60 official release for Windows, Linux, BeOS and Dos-32
08 Aug 1999
WinRAR 2.60 first public beta.
02 Apr 1999
RAR 2.50 official release for Windows, DOS, OS/2 and Linux.
24 Feb 1999
RAR 2.0.1 for the Macintosh has been released.
18 Jan 1999
RAR 2.50 public beta releases for Dos, OS/2 and Win'95/NT.
09 Dec 1998
RAR 2.06 maintenance releases for Dos, OS/2 and Win'95/NT.
19 Oct 1998
RAR 2.05 maintenance releases for Dos, OS/2 and Win'95/NT.
08 Jun 1998
RAR 2.04 maintenance releases for Dos, OS/2 and Win'95/NT.
30 Mar 1998
RAR 2.03 maintenance releases for Dos, OS/2 and Win'95/NT.
07 Feb 1998
RAR 2.02 maintenance releases for HP-UX, BSD and Linux.
27 Sep 1997
RAR 2.02 maintenance releases for Windows, DOS and OS/2.
14 May 1997
RAR 2.01 releases for Unix. Versions available for SCO, BSD, Linux,
Sparc and HP-UX.
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