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2. tar (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own, such as devices that use magnetic tape.

3. List of archive formats - Wikipedia

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   The "tarball" format combines tar archives with a file-based compression scheme (usually gzip). Commonly used for source and binary distribution on Unix-like platforms, widely available elsewhere. Xarchiver supports the .tar.zst Archive/Compression format on Unix-like platforms. .uc .uc0 .uc2 .ucn .ur2 .ue2 UltraCompressor II DOS: DOS

4. Solid compression - Wikipedia

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   In computing, solid compression is a method for data compression of multiple files, wherein all the uncompressed files are concatenated and treated as a single data block. Such an archive is called a solid archive. It is used natively in the 7z [1] and RAR [2] formats, as well as indirectly in tar-based formats such as .tar.gz and .tar.bz2.

5. PeaZip - Wikipedia

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   PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and ... In addition to more popular and general-purpose archive formats including 7z, Tar ... is an archive file format ...

6. lzip - Wikipedia

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   For example, if the underlying file is a tar archive, this can allow extracting any undamaged files, even if other parts of the archive are damaged. As for the file format, special emphasis has been put on enabling integrity checks by means of an integrated 32-bit checksum for each compressed stream; [ 3 ] this is used in combination with the ...

7. Comparison of file archivers - Wikipedia

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   PeaZip has full support for Brotli, Zstandard, various LPAQ and PAQ formats, QUAD / BALZ / BCM (highly efficient ROLZ based compressors), FreeArc format, and for its native PEA format. 7-Zip includes read support for .msi , cpio and xar , plus Apple's dmg / HFS disk images and the deb / .rpm package distribution formats; beta versions (9.07 ...

8. Dar (disk archiver) - Wikipedia

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   Per-file compression with gzip, bzip2, lzo, xz or lzma (as opposed to compressing the whole archive). An individual can choose not to compress already compressed files based on their filename suffix. Fast-extracting of files from anywhere in the archive; Fast listing of archive contents through saving the catalogue of files in the archive

9. bzip2 - Wikipedia

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   bzip2 is a free and open-source file compression program that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm.It only compresses single files and is not a file archiver.It relies on separate external utilities such as tar for tasks such as handling multiple files, and other tools for encryption, and archive splitting.