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'''IDArc''' is an open source DOS program for identifying [[archiving]] and [[compression]] formats. It was developed by Jürgen Peters.

Some of its format knowledge has been incorporated into the [[File command]]'s database.

== External links ==
* [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/idarc215.exe IDArc v2.15.01-German] (2003-10-10)
* [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/idar215e.exe IDArc v2.15.01-English] 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040206191334/http://www.graybeast.de/ Archived website - German]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040708215355/http://home.tiscali.de/grayb/homepa_e.htm Archived website - English]

IDArc version 2.15.03 (2004-02-02) apparently exists, but has not been located.

== List of recognized formats ==

List of recognized formats, from version 2.15.01:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;"
! ID
! Name
! class="unsortable" | References and remarks
|-
| 1   || ARC || [[ARC (compression format)]]
|-
| 2   || ZIP || [[ZIP]], [[Self-extracting ZIP]]
|-
| 3   || ZOO || [[Zoo]]
|-
| 4   || LZH || [[LHA]]
|-
| 5   || DWC || [[DWC]]
|-
| 6   || MDCD || [[MDCD]]
|-
| 7   || LBR || [[LBR]]
|-
| 8   || ARJ || [[ARJ]]
|-
| 9   || HYP || [[Hyper archive]]
|-
| 10  || UC2 || [[UltraCompressor II]]
|-
| 11  || HAP || [[HAP]]
|-
| 12  || HA || [[HA]]
|-
| 13  || HPack (HPK) || [[HPACK (compressed archive)]]
|-
| 14  || SQZ (Squeeze It) || [[Squeeze It]]
|-
| 15  || RAR || [[RAR]]
|-
| 16  || PAK || [[PAK (ARC extension)]]
|-
| 17  || ARC+ || [[ARC (compression format)#ARC Plus]]
|-
| 18  || LIM || [[LIMIT]]
|-
| 19  || BSN (BSA/PTS-DOS) || [[BSArc and BSA]]
|-
| 20  || PUT || [[PUT]]
|-
| 21  || SQWEZ || [[SQWEZ]]
|-
| 22  || Crush/ZIP || [[CRUSH]] + [[ZIP]]
|-
| 23  || Crush/ARJ || [[CRUSH]] + [[ARJ]]
|-
| 24  || Crush/LZH || [[CRUSH]] + [[LHA]]
|-
| 25  || Crush/ZOO || [[CRUSH]] + [[Zoo]]
|-
| 26  || Crush/HA || [[CRUSH]] + [[HA]]
|-
| 27  || LZExe || [[LZEXE]]
|-
| 28  || PKLite || [[PKLITE]]
|-
| 29  || Diet || [[DIET (compression)]]
|-
| 30  || TinyProg || [[TINYPROG]]
|-
| 31  || GIF || [[GIF]]
|-
| 32  || JPG (JFIF) || [[JFIF]]
|-
| 33  || JPG (HSI) || [[HSI JPEG]]
|-
| 34  || AIN || [[AIN]]
|-
| 35  || AINEXE || [[AIN#AINEXE]]
|-
| 36  || SAR || [[SAR (Streamline Design)]]
|-
| 37  || BS2/BSArc || [[BSArc and BSA]]
|-
| 38  || GZIP/Comp 4.3 || [[Gzip]], [[compress (Unix)]]
|-
| 39  || ACB
|-
| 40  || MAR || [[Micrognosis Compression Archiver]]
|-
| 41  || CPZ (CPShrink)
|-
| 42  || JRC || [[JRchive]]
|-
| 43  || JArcs || [[JARCS]]
|-
| 44  || Quantum || [[Quantum compressed archive]]
|-
| 45  || ReSOF
|-
| 46  || Crush/uncompressed || [[CRUSH]]
|-
| 47  || ARX || [[ARX]]
|-
| 48  || UCEXE || [[UCEXE]]
|-
| 49  || WWPack || [[WWPACK]]
|-
| 50  || QuArk
|-
| 51  || YAC || [[YAC]]
|-
| 52  || X1
|-
| 53  || Codec || [[CODEC (Telvox)]]
|-
| 54  || AMGC || [[AMG (compressed archive)]]
|-
| 55  || NuLIB
|-
| 56  || PAKLeo (PLL)
|-
| 57  || TGZ || [[Gzip]] (or [[Tape Archive|tar]] + Gzip)
|-
| 58  || WWPack-Data || [[WWPACK]]
|-
| 59  || ChArc
|-
| 60  || PSA
|-
| 61  || ZAR
|-
| 62  || LHark || [[LHARK]]
|-
| 63  || CrossePAC
|-
| 64  || Freeze || [[Freeze/Melt]]
|-
| 65  || KBoom
|-
| 66  || NSQ || [[Squeeze]]
|-
| 67  || DPA
|-
| 68  || TTComp || [[TTComp archive]]
|-
| 69  || WIC (Fake!)
|-
| 70  || RKive || [[RKIVE]]
|-
| 71  || JAR || [[JAR (ARJ Software)]]
|-
| 72  || ESP
|-
| 73  || ZPack || [[Z/Install Lite]]
|-
| 74  || DRY
|-
| 75  || OWS (Fake!)
|-
| 76  || SKY
|-
| 77  || ARI
|-
| 78  || UFA || [[UFA]]
|-
| 79  || Microsoft CAB || [[Cabinet]]
|-
| 80  || FOXSQZ
|-
| 81  || AR7 || [[AR7]]
|-
| 82  || TSComp || [[TSComp]]
|-
| 83  || PPMZ
|-
| 84  || MS Compress || [[MS-DOS installation compression]]
|-
| 85  || MP3 (Marco Czudej)
|-
| 86  || ZET
|-
| 87  || XPack Data || [[XPACK]]
|-
| 88  || XPack Diskimage || [[XPACK]]
|-
| 89  || ARQ
|-
| 90  || ACE || [[ACE]]
|-
| 91  || Squash || [[Squash ARH]]
|-
| 92  || Terse || [[TERSE]]
|-
| 93  || XPack single data || [[XPACK]]
|-
| 94  || Stuffit (Mac) || [[StuffIt]]
|-
| 95  || PUCrunch
|-
| 96  || BZip || [[bzip]]
|-
| 97  || UHarc || [[UHARC]]
|-
| 98  || ABComp
|-
| 99  || CMP (André Olejko)
|-
| 100 || BZip2 || [[bzip2]]
|-
| 101 || LZOP || [[lzop]]
|-
| 102 || szip || [[Sunzip]]
|-
| 103 || Splint
|-
| 104 || TAR || [[Tape Archive]]
|-
| 105 || InstallShield
|-
| 106 || CARComp
|-
| 107 || LZS || [[LHA]] with LArc compression
|-
| 108 || BOA
|-
| 109 || InstallShield Z || [[InstallShield Z]]
|-
| 110 || ARG || [[ARG]]
|-
| 111 || Gather
|-
| 112 || Pack Magic
|-
| 113 || BTS || (Big Tree Software Archiver)
|-
| 114 || ELI 5750
|-
| 115 || QFC
|-
| 116 || PRO-PACK || [[Pro-Pack]]
|-
| 117 || MSXiE || (Mercury Soft Technology)
|-
| 118 || RAX
|-
| 119 || 777 || [[777]]
|-
| 120 || LZS221 || [[LZS221]] (Stac)
|-
| 121 || HPA || (Hungarian Pirate Alliance)
|-
| 122 || Arhangel || (George Lyapko)
|-
| 123 || EXP1 || (Bulat Ziganshin)
|-
| 124 || IMP || [[IMP]]
|-
| 125 || BMF || [[BMF (Dmitry Shkarin)]]
|-
| 126 || NRV || (Markus Oberhumer)
|-
| 127 || oPAQue || (Dmitry Dvoinikov)
|-
| 128 || Squish (Mike Albert)
|-
| 129 || Par || (ParB)
|-
| 130 || HIT (Bogdan Ureche)
|-
| 131 || SBX
|-
| 132 || NaShrinK
|-
| 133 || Disintegrator
|-
| 134 || ASD (T. Svensson)
|-
| 135 || InstallShield CAB || [[InstallShield CAB]]
|-
| 136 || TOP4
|-
| 137 || BatComp (4DOS)
|-
| 138 || BlakHole || [[BlakHole]]
|-
| 139 || BIX (Igor Pavlov) || [[BIX]]
|-
| 140 || ChiefLZA || [[ChiefLZ]] archive format
|-
| 141 || Blink (D.T.S.)
|-
| 142 || CAR (MylesHi!) || [[CAR (MylesHi!)]]
|-
| 143 || SARJ
|-
| 144 || Compack Sfx || [[COMPACK]]
|-
| 145 || Logitech Compress
|-
| 146 || ARS-Sfx
|-
| 147 || AKT
|-
| 148 || Flash
|-
| 149 || PC/3270
|-
| 150 || NPack
|-
| 151 || PFT || (Perfect Finishing Touch)
|-
| 152 || Xtreme
|-
| 153 || SemOne
|-
| 154 || AKT32
|-
| 155 || InstallIt
|-
| 156 || PPMD || [[PPMd]]
|-
| 157 || Swag || [[SWG]]
|-
| 158 || FIZ
|-
| 159 || BA (M. Lundqvist)
|-
| 160 || XPA32 (J. Tseng)
|-
| 161 || RK (M.Taylor) || [[RK]]
|-
| 162 || RPM || [[RPM]]
|-
| 163 || DeepFreezer || [[Yamazaki zipper archive]]
|-
| 164 || ZZip (Damien Debin) || [[Zzip]]
|-
| 165 || DC (Edgar Binder)
|-
| 166 || TPac (Tim Gordon) || [[TPAC (Tim Gordon)]]
|-
| 167 || Ai (E.Ilya)
|-
| 168 || Ybs (Vadim Yoockin)
|-
| 169 || Ai32 (E.Ilya)
|-
| 170 || SBC (Sami Mäkinen)
|-
| 171 || DitPack
|-
| 172 || DMS || [[Disk Masher System]]
|-
| 173 || EPC
|-
| 174 || VSARC
|-
| 175 || PDZ
|-
| 176 || Package for the Web || [[PackageForTheWeb]]
|-
| 177 || NullSoft Installer || [[NSIS]]
|-
| 178 || Wise Installer
|-
| 179 || DZip (Nolan Pflug) || [[Dzip]]
|-
| 180 || 7z || [[7z]]
|-
| 181 || ReDuq (J. Mintjes)
|-
| 182 || aPackage
|-
| 183 || WinImage
|-
| 184 || GCA || [[GCA]]
|-
| 185 || PPMN (Max Smirnov)
|-
| 186 || SAPCAR || [[CAR]]
|-
| 187 || Compressia
|-
| 188 || UHBC
|-
| 189 || PKZip6/BZip2 || [[ZIP]] with [[bzip2]] compression
|}

[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Archiving]]
[[Category:Compression]]