7z, tar, gz added to native support on Windows after 30 years of RAR compression format
As a file compression format, the 'RAR format', which has a higher compression rate than 'ZIP' and is one of the features that the file size can be reduced, is finally supported natively on Windows, Microsoft's developer event It was announced during '
Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 - unlocking a new era of productivity for customers and developers with Windows Copilot and Dev Home - Windows Developer Blog
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringing-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-11-unlocking-a-new-era-of-productivity-for-customers- and-developers-with-windows-copilot-and-dev-home/
Ahoy, matey! Windows 11 will soon have native RAR support - The Verge
CDJapan : Opening RAR files natively in Windows 11 is coming and people online are going crazy over it - CDJapan
At 'Microsoft Build 2023', various new features of Windows such as 'Windows Copilot' were announced, and among them, by using the open source project libarchive, many archive formats are natively supported. plans to do so became clear.
libarchive is a multi-format archiving and compression library that supports a variety of formats including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and more.
libarchive - C library and command-line tools for reading and writing tar, cpio, zip, ISO, and other archive formats @ GitHub
GitHub - libarchive/libarchive: Multi-format archive and compression library
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
Among them, former Microsoft's Michal Lewis reveals that support for the 'RAR' format was the most requested function addition in the days of Windows XP.
The most requested feature of Windows XP is coming soon to Windows 11. https://t.co/OI8Rnt12fM
—Mikal Lewis (@MikalFM) May 23, 2023
'RAR' is a file format created by Mr. Eugene Roshal, a Russian engineer, in 1993, and the name is taken from the abbreviation of ' Roshal Archive '.
Features include a higher compression rate than ZIP, which was used worldwide from that time, and a mechanism of ``recovery record'' that can be restored even if a part of the compressed file is damaged. there is.
In 1995, 'WinRAR' for Windows appeared. WinRAR is shareware and the latest 6.22 beta 1 version was released on May 14, 2023.
WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files
https://www.rarlab.com/
In response to this report, Devin Cordway of TechCrunch remembered that he first encountered a RAR file in 1999, and displayed dozens of dialogs notifying him of the end of the 40-day trial period set by WinRAR. Looking back over the years, 'Am I so stingy?' 'Will I continue to abuse this poor shareware for the rest of my life?' It is natural to pay 'a cup of coffee' (recently about $ 31: about 4300 yen) to support ', he said that he purchased WinRAR.
28 years later, Windows finally supports RAR files | TechCrunch
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