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<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Archiving |released=≤1999 }} &#039;&#039;&#039;ARS&#039;&#039;&#039; is a DOS utility that creates self-extracting compressed archives in <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS_EXE" title="MS-DOS EXE">EXE</a> fo...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Archiving<br /> |released=≤1999<br /> }}<br /> '''ARS''' is a DOS utility that creates self-extracting compressed archives in [[MS-DOS EXE|EXE]] format. It was developed by Stepanyuk V. Oleg (maybe also written &quot;Oleg Stepanyuk&quot;).<br /> <br /> == Identification ==<br /> ''[Only v2.1.1 has been evaluated.]''<br /> <br /> The first 11806 bytes are probably always the same. There is an apparent signature at the start of the &quot;overlay&quot; segment (refer to [[MS-DOS EXE#Special file positions]]) at offset 11792: byte {{magic|0x0d}}, followed by ASCII &quot;{{magic|(C) STEPANYUK}}&quot;. (Caution: The few bytes after this string might be garbage.)<br /> <br /> == Software ==<br /> * {{CdTextfiles|simtel/simtel0101/simtel/compress/ars211.zip|ARS v2.1.1}} (also uses version number &quot;2.1&quot;)<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [https://web.archive.org/web/20010101000000*/http://www.chat.ru/~ostepanyuk/ Oddin Software website archives] - Apparently associated with the author, though no mention of ARS.</div>

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