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2. Compact Pro - Wikipedia

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   Compact Pro is a software data compression utility for archiving and compressing files on the Apple Macintosh platform. It was a major competitor to StuffIt in the early 1990s, producing smaller archives in less time, able to create self-extracting archives without the use of an external program, as well as being distributed via shareware which greatly helped its popularity.

3. List of archive formats - Wikipedia

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   Open source file format. .cpt Compact Pro: Classic Mac OS: Multiple Yes Compact Pro archive, a common archiver used on Mac platforms until about Mac OS 7.5.x. Competed with StuffIt; now obsolete. .dar application/x-dar Disk Archiver: Unix-like including macOS: Unix-like including macOS, Windows: Yes Open source file format.

4. Comparison of file archivers - Wikipedia

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   File archivers Developer Initial release Platform Latest release version Latest release date Status License Cost 7-Zip: Igor Pavlov 1999-01-02 Cross-platform 24.09 [1] 2024-11-29 Active LGPL-2.1-or-later (RAR plugin is proprietary) No cost ALZip: ESTsoft: 1999 [a] Cross-platform 12.22 [2] 2024-02-07 Active Proprietary No cost [b] Archive Manager

5. 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 zipper.

6. StuffIt - Wikipedia

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   Although Mac files generally did not use filename extensions, one of StuffIt's primary uses was to allow Mac files to be stored on non-Mac systems where extensions were required. So, StuffIt-compressed files save the resource forks of the Macintosh files inside them, and typically have the extension .sit .

7. List of built-in macOS apps - Wikipedia

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   These packages were a collection of files that resided in folders with a .pkg file extension. [95] [96] In Mac OS X Leopard the software packaging method was changed to use the XAR (eXtensible ARchiver) file format; the directory tree containing the files is packaged as an xar archive file with a .pkg extension. [97]

8. List of file formats - Wikipedia

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   While MS-DOS and NT always treat the suffix after the last period in a file's name as its extension, in UNIX-like systems, the final period does not necessarily mean that the text after the last period is the file's extension. [1] Some file formats, such as .txt or .text, may be listed multiple times.

9. Self-extracting archive - Wikipedia

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   The self-extracting executable may need to be renamed to contain a file extension associated with the corresponding packer; archive file formats known to support this include ARJ [1] and ZIP. [2] [3] Typically, self-extracting files for Microsoft operating systems such as DOS and Windows have a .exe extension, just like any other executable file.