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2. List of archive formats - Wikipedia

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   RPM files consist of metadata concatenated with (usually) a cpio archive. Newer RPM systems also support other archives, as cpio is becoming obsolete. cpio is also used with initramfs. .shar application/ x-shar: Shell archive: Unix-like A self-extracting archive that uses the Bourne shell (sh). .LBR .LBR: CP/M DOS A system for storing multiple ...

3. ZIP (file format) - Wikipedia

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   ZIP files generally use the file extensions.zip or .ZIP and the MIME media type application/zip. [1] ZIP is used as a base file format by many programs, usually under a different name. When navigating a file system via a user interface, graphical icons representing ZIP files often appear as a document or other object prominently featuring a ...

4. compress (software) - Wikipedia

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   (The tar program in its own does not compress; it just stores multiple files within one tape archive.) Files can be returned to their original state using uncompress. The usual action of uncompress is not merely to create an uncompressed copy of the file, but also to restore the timestamp and other attributes of the compressed file. For files ...

5. 7-Zip - Wikipedia

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   7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. [2] 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z introduced in 2001, [12] but can read and write several others.

6. Solid compression - Wikipedia

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   Compressed file formats often feature both compression (storing the data in a small space) and archiving (storing multiple files and metadata in a single file). One can combine these in two natural ways: compress the individual files, and then archive into a single file; archive into a single data block, and then compress.

7. libzip - Wikipedia

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   libzip is an open-source library for handling zip archives. It is written in portable C and can thus be used on multiple operating systems. It is based on zlib. It is used by PHP's zip extension for zip file support [2] and MySQL Workbench. [3] It is also used by KDE's ark archiving tool for zip archive support.

8. Executable compression - Wikipedia

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   Software distributors use executable compression for a variety of reasons, primarily to reduce the secondary storage requirements of their software; as executable compressors are specifically designed to compress executable code, they often achieve better compression ratio than standard data compression facilities such as gzip, zip or bzip2 [citation needed].

9. Info-ZIP - Wikipedia

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   Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives.It has been in circulation since 1989. It consists of 4 separately-installable packages: the Zip and UnZip command-line utilities; and WiZ and MacZip, which are graphical user interfaces for archiving programs in Microsoft Windows and classic Mac OS, respectively.