Transferring large files across a business network or the Internet can use a considerable amount of system resources, which, depending on your network, can result in diminished performance for ...

Click the "Dash" icon. Type "terminal" (without quotes) in the search box. Click the "Terminal" application icon. Navigate to the folder containing the RAR archive you want to extract files from using ...

What you are describing is most certainly not the default behavior of winrar. When you use winrar and give it a path it will write directly to that location. This is easily verified with filemon.