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WinRAR 3.80 Beta 2

Copernic   on 15 June 2008 - 18:14 · 4 comments & 9054 views

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WinRAR is an archive manager with support for packing RAR and ZIP archives and unpacking RAR, ZIP, ZIP64, 7Z (7-Zip), CAB, ARJ, LZH (Lempel-Ziv-Huffman), TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR (Java Archive developed by Sun Microsystems) and ISO (ISO9660) archives. You may use it to backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, decompress files downloaded from the Internet and create your own file archives.

WinRAR features:

* WinRAR introduces an original compression algorithm. It allows higher compression ratios than other PC archiving tools, especially for executable files, object libraries, large text files, etc.
* WinRAR offers an optional compression algorithm highly optimized for multimedia data.
* WinRAR supports files and archives up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes in size, about 9000PB. The number of archived files is unlimited for all practical purposes.
* WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7Z archives.
* WinRAR supports NTFS file security and data streams.
* WinRAR offers both a classic interactive Windows interface and the command line interface.
* WinRAR provides functionality for creating a 'solid' archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create and change SFX archives using default and external SFX modules.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.

* WinRAR offers a number of service functions, such as setting a password, adding archive and file comments. Even physically damaged archives may be repaired and an archive may be locked to prevent further changes. Authenticity information may be added for additional security and WinRAR will store information on the last update and name of the archive.

What's new in Version 3.80 beta 2

1. Bugs fixed:

a) beta 1 could display random garbage characters in context menu in Windows x64;
b) beta 1 could display only a part of files in tar.gz archives;
c) beta 1 could fail to set timestamps for files extracted from ZIP archives;
d) beta 1 could issue a rename error message and abort when creating RAR volumes with Unicode characters in archive name.

Download: WinRAR 3.80 Beta 2 shareware
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Link: WinRAR Home Page

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#1 Avi on 15 Jun 2008 - 18:45
Yay! Thanks for the quick update.
#2 necrosis on 16 Jun 2008 - 17:37
Can it display and extract Unicode (Japanese) named files properly yet?
#3 _dandy_ on 16 Jun 2008 - 18:23
9 exabytes...I hope whoever's gonna compress something that large will at least turn on the option to include error recovery records. Would hate to have an archive of the size unusable because of one incorrect bit...

And have they actually tested that, or is it just the theoretical limit?
#4 Sawyer12 on 17 Jun 2008 - 16:21
WinRAR supports files and archives up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes in size, about 9000PB. The number of archived files is unlimited for all practical purposes.

I hope this has been tested because Ive been waiting for this

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