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RAR versus ZIP


Compared to the ZIP 2.0 standard file format, RAR provides a number of advanced features: more convenient multipart (multivolume) archives, tight compression including special solid, multimedia and text modes, strong AES-128 encryption, recovery records helping to repair an archive even in the case of physical data damage, Unicode support to process non-English file names and a lot more.



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