TAR and RAR are very common archive formats, although both are typically found on another platform. TAR is for Unix, RAR for Windows. You can decompress and compress both with many of the currently available file managers and compression tools and as such can also be converted.
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Conversion of tar file format to rar file format beta
Search for tar to rar converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Unix standard Archive format, Tape Archive to WinRAR RAR compressed archive.
We have found 6 software records in our database eligible for .tar to .rar file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert tar to rar on Windows
WinRAR
One of the oldest and most popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from tar file | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
to rar file | Yes, WinRAR supports rar file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | Yes | rar editor | Yes | No | No | Yes |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned tar to rar. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
7-zip
Popular open source file archiver with a high compression ratio
ALZip
One of the many available file compression utilities
FilZip
A freeware file compression tool
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert tar to rar on OS X
sArchiver
A compression utility for Mac
EZ7z for Mac
A compression utility for OS X
Additional links: Open tar file, Open rar file
TAR
Files with tar extension may be most often found as compressed archives in Unix standard archive format.
RAR
Files with rar extension are compressed archives made using any of the RAR or WinRAR compression utilities. Along with ZIP format, RAR format is one of the most common formats used and as such can be extracted by almost every archiving tool.
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