

For example, most archives on Internet are ZIP archives. The main advantage of ZIP format is its popularity. RAR format has also a few important features missing in ZIP, such as the recovery record allowing reconstructing damaged data and locking important archives to prevent their accidental modification. WinRAR multi-volume archives in RAR format allow more functions like self-extracting volumes. Typically RAR format provides better compression than ZIP, especially in the solid mode. Both RAR and ZIP formats are able to handle files of practically unlimited size. Here is a comparison of these RAR and ZIP formats: WinRAR is able to create archives in two different formats: RAR and ZIP. There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating system: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. WinRAR is Windows version of the RAR archiver – a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage and control archive files.

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