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        "tagline": "Commercial archiver for RAR and ZIP files on Windows",
        "summary": "WinRAR is a commercial archiver from win.rar GmbH that creates and opens RAR and ZIP archives. It works with many other archive formats and is available in more than 40 languages.",
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            "Positioned for Windows on its own site"
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