Format
RAR Archive
Summary
- Name
- RAR Archive
- Version
- 2.0
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.rar
- PUID: x-fmt/264
- Description
- RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery and file spanning.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
rar - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
RAR Archive 2
- Description
- Marker block 0x526172211A0700 + Archive header type 0x73 + at offset 44 RAR version needed to extract file 0x14=20 dec = vers 2.0
- Provenance
- Eugene Roshal RAR version 2.02 - Technical information www.wotsit.org/list.asp?search=rar+version+2.02&button=GO%21
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
526172211A0700{2}73{34}14- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V88
- Release date
- 27 September 2016
-
Updated
RAR Archive 2.0: Adjusted MIME type from deprecated application/x-rar-compressed to application/vnd.rar. Added description.
-
V58
- Release date
- 21 March 2012
-
Added signature
RAR Archive 2: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.
-
Updated
RAR Archive 2.0: Format name changed for greater accuracy and consistency and version information added.