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WinRAR 2.90 Beta 3

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of the RAR archiver - a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage and control archive files. There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating environments, currently available: RAR for DOS, OS/2, Windows (32-bit), Unix (Linux, BSD, SCO, Sparc and HP-UX) and BeOS.

WinRAR features

  • Complete support of RAR and ZIP archives;

  • Highly sophisticated, original compression algorithm;

  • Special multimedia compression algorithm;

  • Shell interface including drag-and-drop facility;

  • Command line interface;

  • Non RAR archives (CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE) management;

  • Solid archiving, which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files;

    Multivolume archives;

  • Creation of self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules;

  • Recovering physically damaged archives;

  • Support for Unicode in file names;

  • Other service functions, such as encryption, archive comments (with ANSI esc sequences support), error logging, etc.
Limitations: 40-Day Trial

News source: Tweak Files

Download: WinRAR beta

This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

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