- Extension
- .ar
- .rar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Eugene Roshal
- Description
- AR is a Unix archive file that is purposely used to develop and update static library files for creating .deb packages. Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
- A RAR file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed with RAR compression. It uses a higher compression ratio than typical ZIP compression and incorporates a proprietary compression algorithm that is now used by other compressors, including 7-Zip for its .7Z files. RAR files may be extracted using a variety of programs.
- MIME Type
- application/x-archive
- application/x-rar-compressed
