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Windows 11 will soon have native RAR support.

Ahoy, matey! Microsoft is finally adding in native RAR support into Windows 11. While you’ve been able to open ZIP files for years in Windows, WinRAR or something similar was always required for RAR files. Archive formats like tar, 7-zip, RAR, gz and many others will now be supported using the libarchive open-source project.

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