Short for Roshal ARchive, RAR is a file format used for data compression (similar to ZIP files), error recovery, and file spanning, developed by Eugene Roshal. The most common file extensions for a RAR format is .rar (for compressed files) and .rev (for recovery files).

How to open a RAR file

7-Zip and WinRAR are the most common software programs used for creating files in the RAR format and extracting the contents of the RAR file.

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