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Appendix d how to open zip or rar files – Gasboy SiteOmat Maintenance Manual User Manual

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APPENDIX D

HOW TO OPEN ZIP OR RAR FILES

ZIP FILES

ZIP is a popular archive format widely used to compress and package files. Like other archives, ZIP

files are data containers; they store one or several files in a compressed form. After downloading a

ZIP file, unpack/unzip its contents in order to use it.

HOW TO HANDLE ZIP FILES

WinRAR® provides the complete support for ZIP files, so users may both create and unpack/unzip

them. If the user has installed WinRAR on the computer and downloaded a ZIP file from Internet,

double click on the ZIP file icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files, click on the Extract To

button, enter a destination path and click OK. Another way is to click on the ZIP file in the

Explorer using the right mouse button. If the user enabled the "Shell integration" option when

installing WinRAR, the file context menu contains the Extract to ... option.

RAR FILES

RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers,

they store one or several files in a compressed form. After downloading a RAR file from Internet,

unpack its contents in order to use it.

HOW TO HANDLE RAR FILES

WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR files, so users may both create and unpack them.

If the user has installed WinRAR on the computer and downloaded a RAR file from Internet,

double click on the RAR file icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files, click on the Extract To

button, enter a destination path and click OK. Another way is to click on the RAR file in Explorer

using the right mouse button. If the user enabled the Shell integration option when installing

WinRAR, the file context menu contains the Extract to ... option.

Several RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR a huge archive can be

splitted into a few smaller files, which are called volumes. They may have extensions .rar (the first

volume), .r00, .r01, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc. To unpack the volumes,

place all of them in the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.