What is the rar format?

RAR is a patented file format, which is used for data compression, archiving and packaging. The developer is Eugene Rochelle (Russian: евгениклареви).

The full name of RAR is "Rochard? Archives "means" Rochelle's archives ". The first public version RAR 1.3 was published in 1993.

Development history:

Eugene Rochelle1March 972 1972 was born in Russia. He graduated from Chelyabinsk Technical University in Russia (now Southern Wula State University) and is also the author of FAR File Manager.

He developed programs to compress or decompress RAR files, which were originally used in DOS and later transplanted to other platforms. The main Windows version encoder, named WinRAR, is released in the form of * * * software.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia -RAR