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|extensions={{ext|egg}}
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'''EGG''' is an archiving format that is native to newer versions of the ALZip archiver software, which also supports a number of other formats (including the [[ALZ]] format of earlier ALZip versions).

The makers of ALZip claim various advantages of EGG, including Unicode support and efficient compression which takes advantage of the similarities of data in multiple files in the same archive.

== Identification ==
EGG archives begin with ASCII "{{magic|EGGA}}".

== Specifications ==
* [http://www.altools.com/al/downloads/egg_module/EGG_Specification.zip EGG format spec] ([[ZIP]]ped [[PDF]])

== Links ==
* [https://github.com/PascalVault/File_Format_Info/tree/main/Archive/EGG Specification, unEGG sources]
* [http://www.altools.com/ALTools/ALZip/Egg-format.aspx EGG format info]
* [http://www.altools.com/ALTools/ALZip.aspx ALZip for Windows]
* [http://www.altools.com/ALTools/ALZipmac.aspx ALZip for Mac]
* [http://www.altools.com/al/downloads/egg_module/UnEGG.zip UnEGG module] (ZIPped download)
* [http://www.altools.com/al/downloads/egg_module/unegg_v0.5.tar.bz Unegg sources] (for Linux, in .[[Tape Archive|tar]].[[bzip|bz]] file)
* [[Wikipedia: ALZip]]