Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH. It can create and view archives in RAR or ZIP file formats, [ 6 ] and unpack numerous archive file formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds CRC32 or BLAKE2 checksums for each file in each archive.
UNRARLIB (UniquE RAR File Library) [19] was an obsolete free software unarchiving library called "unrarlib", licensed under the GPLv2-or-later. It could only decompress archives created by RAR versions prior to 2.9; archives created by RAR 2.9 and later use different formats not supported by this library.
Eugene Roshal (Russian: Евгений Лазаревич Рошал, romanized: Yevgeniy Lazarevich Roshal; born 1972) is a Russian software engineer best known for developing the RAR file format, the WinRAR archiver, and the FAR file manager. His contributions have significantly impacted the field of data compression and file management.
File extension(s) [a] MIME type [b] Official name [c] Platform [d] Description .br application/x-brotli Brotli: all Brotli is a compression algorithm developed by Google for textual web content, and typically achieves higher compression ratios than other algorithms for this use case.
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives".It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999.
Each release in The Scene consists of a folder containing the material (sometimes split into RAR pieces), plus an NFO and SFV file. The NFO is a text file which has essential information about the files encoded, including a reason for the nuke if the file is a PROPER or REPACK release.
Activation is performed with a utility supplied with Windows and Office called the Activation Wizard. It can be performed either over the Internet or by telephone . [ 1 ] When activating over the Internet, the Activation Wizard automatically transmits and receives verification data to and from Microsoft servers, completing the process without ...
One of the contentious issues surrounding the use of proprietary formats is the control of the files. [citation needed] If the information is stored in a way which the user's software provider tries to keep secret, the user may store the information by virtue of having generated it, but they have no way to retrieve it except by using a version of the original software which produced the file.