.SAR File Extension

Stores musical arrangements used by Sibelius music notation software; allows songs with similar styles to be composed from the same basic configuration; may include instruments, track configurations, meter, tempo, and other settings.

A SAR file is a compressed archive created by the SAPCAR compression utility. It contains one or more files used by the SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. SAR files usually contain SAP executables.

SAP is an ERP suite that allows businesses to centralize their data and business logic. Versions 4.6C and above of SAP include a proprietary compression utility named SAPCAR. (In previous versions, this utility was named just CAR.)

SAPCAR creates and can extract files from compressed archives saved as SAR files. Often, IT administrators provide SAR files that contain additional or updated programs to end-users, so those users can install the programs on their machine.

You can extract the files a SAR archive contains using the SAPCAR utility (Windows, Linux).

Graphic created with Saracen Paint, an image creation application for Commodore 64/128 systems; contains a color bitmap image; can be converted to more modern image formats using some image converter programs.

NOTE: Commodore 128 systems were discontinued in 1989.