- Extension
- .z
- .rar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
- Eugene Roshal
- Description
- It is an archive file that uses simple compression to compress files in the Unix OS. The files can easily be decompressed on the same OS.
- 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-compress
- application/x-rar-compressed
