Format
RAR Archive
Summary
- Name
- RAR Archive
- Version
- 5.0
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.rar
- PUID: fmt/613
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
- RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery and file spanning.
- File extensions
-
rar - Source
- Artefactual Systems Inc / Artefactual Systems Inc
Internal signatures
RAR Archive
- Note
- BOF: Rar!....
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
526172211A070100- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V88
- Release date
- 27 September 2016
RAR Archive 5.0: Adjusted MIME type from deprecated application/x-rar-compressed to application/vnd.rar.
-
Added in V73
- Release date
- 27 February 2014
RAR Archive 5.0: Signature developed in collaboration with Artefactual Systems Inc.
RAR Archive 5.0: Outline Entry Added. Submitted by Artefactual Systems Inc.