The "RAR Archiver Site" is a service provided by Mr. Homies' Computex for the purpose of registering and downloading the RAR/FAR software products. The "RAR Archiver Site" is also designed to provide product information and support. Mr. Homies' Computex is an Official RAR/FAR Registration and Support site in the USA.

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What is The RAR Archiver? (Pronounced "rar (as in car) ark-eye-ver")

RAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ and others.

RAR also offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a cheaper price as well as support for long file names, disk spanning and self-extracting file creation.

RAR 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.

RAR offers an optional compression algorithm highly optimized for multimedia data.

RAR offers new facilities and features such as a full-screen interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface. RAR provides functionality for creating a 'solid' archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.