WinRAR 4.01 Beta 1

WinRAR 4.01 Beta 1 is launched as a convenient as well as professional program with which you can  use  for an extensive comparision between WinRAR and a major competitor.

Major Features:

1. WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives.
2. WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the competition. This will save you disc space, transmission costs AND valuable working time as well.
3. WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip).
4. WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.
5. WinRAR allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example.
6. WinRAR is also ideal, if you are sending data through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology will give you the peace of mind you have been looking for.
7. WinRAR is shareware, meaning you have the chance to thoroughly test it. The program can be used absolutely free of charge for 40 days!
8. WinRAR licenses are valid for all available language and platform versions. If you have purchased several licenses, you can even mix versions to meet your own personal needs.

• Added support for file sizes stored in binary format in TAR archives. Some TAR archives use the binary size format instead of octal  for files larger than 8 GB.
• Bugs fixed:
• • "Repair" command failed to properly reconstruct structureof RAR archives, which contained at least one file with packed size exceeding 4 GB.This bug did not affect the recovery record based repair. It happened only if recovery record was not found and WinRAR performed reconstruction of archive structure;
  • Even if "Do not extract paths" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog was set as the default, WinRAR still unpacked file paths if called from Explorer context menu;
  • After entering a wrong password for encrypted ZIP archive, sometimes WinRAR ignored subsequent attempts to enter a valid password;
  • "Wizard" command did not allow to create self-extracting  and multivolume archives, when compressing a single folder or a file without extension;
  • "Import settings from file" command did not restore multiline comments in WinRAR compression profiles;
  • When converting RAR volumes having name1.name2.part#.rar name format,"Convert archives" command erroneously removed ".name2" name part.So resulting archive had name1.rar file name instead of expected name1.name2.rar;
  • RAR could crash when creating a new archive with -agNNN switch if archive number in generated name was 110 or larger.