- Extension
- .rar
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- Eugene Roshal
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-rar-compressed
- application/x-tar
