How can I open a Rapid Share or .rar file?

I've just tried to download a movie from a site called "Fast Download Archive." The dowload is a series of rapid share or .rar files. Can someone tell me how I use these files?

WinRar has a free trial. More than likely the poster had to break the file(s) up into multiple parts (which can be done with WinRar) because of a file size limit. If that is what was done it will say filename.part1.rar, filename.part2.rar, etc. WinRar will automatically extract the file(s) from all of them when you try to extract from any of them however they will have to be in the same folder and you will have to have [all/i] of them.

I just installed Winrar fast archiver. But still don't understand whst to do with these files. Any suggestioms to help me get started will be greatly appreciated. thanks

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