The RAR format optionally splits large files into several compressed parts. This multi-part format makes distributing large business files to or from customers or among colleagues easier, because if ...

RAR is a common compression format that is used to reduce the file size of documents on the Internet. The RAR format supports multipart files, called volumes, that enable you to split a large file ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

One of the best methods to manage and share data is through compressed files — commonly known as ZIP files. These files allow users to reduce the size of large files and folders, making it easier to ...

We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...