- Extension
- .rz
- .rar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Andrew Tridgell
- Eugene Roshal
- Description
- It's an archive file compressed using rzip which is based on bzip2 compression that compresses data in 2 stages that is: file encoding and compression.
- 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-rzip
- application/x-rar-compressed
