Featuring the RAR archive engine and FAR the Win9x/NT file manager utility. 

You can register with any of the following credit cards...

Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and Novus

The "RAR Archiver Site" has been set up to ease the registration process for the RAR Archiver/FAR Manager line of software and provide product information as well as a one stop site for finding and downloading the latest RAR/FAR releases.

On this site you will find information and FAQs regarding FAR, RAR, RAR/2, WINRAR and many of the RAR/FAR plug-ins, add-ons, and language files. To find the above information please check download.

The RAR Archiver ("RAR (as in car) Ar-Ky-Ver") 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, lower price, support for long file names, disk spanning and self-extracting archives.

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 a unique 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.

Authentication of this site may be checked anytime by browsing the Official RAR/FAR Registration and Support List, e-mailing Eugene Roshal at , or Ron Dwight at with your questions and / or concerns.