How to decompress RAR files?

About RAR:

Eugene Roshal created the RAR file format, and developed programs for packing and unpacking RAR files, originally for DOS, which were later ported to other platforms.

RAR is a patented archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery, and file spanning. RAR archives are able to handle efficiently split volumes. Before the advent of RAR the most notable such format was ARJ. It can be of a solid format, in which all of the compressed files are treated as a single data block.

The filename extension used by RAR is .rar for the data volume set and .rev for the recovery volume set. In previous versions, if a RAR-archive was broken into many smaller files (a "multi-volume archive"), then the smaller files used the extensions .rar, .r00, .r01, .r02 etc.It can be of a solid format, in which all of the compressed files are treated as a single data block.

WinMount supports decompressing RAR files, there are 2 ways:

The 1st method.

1) Select "Option" menu on the WinMount main interface, Select the "View -> Browser";

select browser view

2) select a RAR archive, click "Extract" on the toolbar.

click "extract" to decompress

The 2nd method.

In the Resource Manager, Right-click a RAR archive, choose "WinMount3 -> extract".

Extract RAR

. Extract to... : Select a directory to extract.
. Extract to here: Extract file to the current path.
. Extract to "Filename\": Extract file to the current path and name it "Filename"
. SmartExtract to here: If the archive has several files in it and all the files are not been compressed in a folder, then create a folder to hold these files before extracting.

All supported formats

WinMount formats: MOU, WMT

Compressed formats: RAR, ZIP, 7Z

Image formats: ISO, ISZ, BIN/CUE, CCD, MDF/MDS, NRG, BWT, IMG, WIM

Audio formats: Flac, APE, WV

Virtual hard disk: VHD



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