Archiving

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

Archiving only
(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)


 * AR file format (.a, .lib) -- Unix Archiver (ar) format as used by various compilers/linkers
 * ARC (Internet Archive) (.arc)
 * BagIt
 * BinHex (.hqx)
 * CPIO (.cpio)
 * LBR (.lbr)
 * Tape Archive (.tar)

Compression + archiving
(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller. See Compression for formats that compress single files/streams)


 * 7z (.7z)
 * ACE (.ace)
 * ARC (.arc)
 * ARC (FreeArc) (.arc)
 * ARC (Web archiving) (.arc.gz) See ARC (Internet Archive)
 * Apple Disk Image
 * ARJ
 * BRU - (RSX-11M backup)
 * Cabinet (.cab)
 * DWC (.dwc)
 * IMP (.imp)
 * Jar (.j, .jar) => this is just a renamed zip file with some mandatory files
 * LHAv (.lzh, .lha)
 * PMA (.pma)
 * RAR (.rar)
 * Softlib (Softdisk Publishing)
 * Spark (.spk)
 * Stuffit (.sit)
 * Stuffit X (.sitx)
 * WARC (.warc, .warc.gz)
 * ZIP (.zip)
 * ZOO (.zoo)

Self-extracting archives
(in addition, some of the other archivers are able to produce executable files for some platform which include the archived data and a program to extract them, and generally have the file extension normal for executables, such as .exe for DOS/Windows)
 * SDA (Self Dissolving Archive)
 * SEA (Self-Extracting Archive]
 * SFX (Self-Extracting Archive)

Uncategorized

 * 7zX s7z
 * 9CDR - Amiga FileImploder Clone
 * AFA afa
 * ALZip alz
 * APX apx
 * ARCFS - ArcFS ArchivePacker
 * ArchiveLib GreenLeaf
 * bh - BlakHole
 * cfs - Compact File Set
 * cpt - Compact Pro
 * DGCA dgc
 * dar - Disk Archiver
 * dd - DiskDoubler
 * DMS dms - Amiga Disk Masher compressed file
 * DUPA- Amiga FileImploder Clone
 * ecc - DVDisaster Error Correction File
 * F - Freeze/Melt
 * GCA gca
 * HA ha
 * z - Huffman Encoding
 * ICE ice
 * IFHC - Amiga FileImploder Clone
 * Inflate infl
 * JCalG1 DataPacker (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
 * kgb - KGB Archiver
 * xp3 - KiriKiri
 * LZX lzx
 * LNX lnx - Lynx archive, used on Commodore 64
 * mar - Mozilla Archive
 * ??_ - MS-DOS Compression
 * pit - PackIt
 * PAK pak
 * PAQ paq6 paq7 paq8
 * par par2 - Parchive File
 * partimg - PartImage
 * pea - PeaZip
 * uca - PerfectCompress
 * PIM pim
 * qda - Quadruple D
 * RK rk
 * RZIP rzip
 * ba - SCIFER
 * sen - Scifer
 * sfArk sfark
 * shar - Shell Archive
 * SQX sqx
 * uha - UHarc
 * uc, uc0, uc2, ucn, ur2, ue2 - UltraCompressor II
 * ar - Unix Archiver
 * wim Windows Image
 * hki - WinHKI
 * rk - WinRK
 * XAR xar
 * YZ1 yz1
 * zz - Zzip