Is there a RAR compression library around?

[Li kai Liu Angus]

Hi, As title. I know that there are a few ZIP compression libraries either freely or commercially available. But I couldn't find RAR compression ones, simple source codes, or even books about this compression algorithm as I have the needs to handle RAR files in my program. So, just wondered if someone knows it. Thanks:)

[Mike Nordell]

ykliu wrote: But I couldn't find RAR compression ones, simple source codes, or even books about this compression algorithm as I have the needs to handle RAR files in my program. How odd, a commercial compression library with a proprietary compression algorithm isn't freely available. Serisouly, since its proprietary you won't find any free implementations of it. For free implementations I'd say that for fast compression I recommend you have a look at LZO. For reasonable time/space you should probably use zlib. For better compression you should probably have a look at bz2.