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* [[Lynx archive]] (Commodore) (.lnx)
 
* [[Lynx archive]] (Commodore) (.lnx)
 
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
 
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
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* [[Packaged Activity]] (.apk)
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* [[PACKFILE (Brad Smith)]]
 
* [[pax]]
 
* [[pax]]
 
* [[QFC]]
 
* [[QFC]]
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* [[Webarchive (Safari)]]
 
* [[Webarchive (Safari)]]
 
* [[XMIT]]
 
* [[XMIT]]
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=== Text-based ===
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* [[HRA]]
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* [[HRX]]
  
 
== Compression + archiving ==
 
== Compression + archiving ==
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* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
 
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
 
* [[Compressia]] (.car)
 
* [[Compressia]] (.car)
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* [[The Compressor (John Lauro)|Compressor, The (John Lauro)]]
 
* [[CP Shrink]] (.cpz)
 
* [[CP Shrink]] (.cpz)
 
* [[CRUSH]]
 
* [[CRUSH]]
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* [[Diamond]]
 
* [[Diamond]]
 
* [[Doom WAD]] (.wad)
 
* [[Doom WAD]] (.wad)
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* [[DRY]]
 
* [[DWC]] (.dwc)
 
* [[DWC]] (.dwc)
 
* [[Dzip]] (.dz)
 
* [[Dzip]] (.dz)
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* [[TBAFS]] (RISC OS)
 
* [[TBAFS]] (RISC OS)
 
* [[Tome]]
 
* [[Tome]]
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* [[TPK (compressed archive)|TPK]]
 
* [[TSComp]]
 
* [[TSComp]]
 
* [[UFA]]
 
* [[UFA]]
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== Encrypted or cryptographically signed archives ==
 
== Encrypted or cryptographically signed archives ==
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* [[DataSAFE]] (.saf, .lbx)
 
* [[SDN (SDN Project)]]
 
* [[SDN (SDN Project)]]
 
* [[XIP]]
 
* [[XIP]]
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* [[AUTOCHOP]]
 
* [[AUTOCHOP]]
 
* [[LambChop]]
 
* [[LambChop]]
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* [[SLICE (Ziff Communications)]]
 
* [[SPLIT (M. Dingacci)]]
 
* [[SPLIT (M. Dingacci)]]
  
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== Institutional archiving ==
 
== Institutional archiving ==
 
* [[ARK]] (identifier for archived documents)
 
* [[ARK]] (identifier for archived documents)
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* [[Archive eXchange Format]] (.axf)
 
* [[OAIS]] (Open Archival Information System, an organization that does archiving)
 
* [[OAIS]] (Open Archival Information System, an organization that does archiving)
 
* [[Planets Core Registry]]
 
* [[Planets Core Registry]]
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* [[Cross-Platform Installer Module]]
 
* [[Cross-Platform Installer Module]]
 
* [[deb]] (Debian package)
 
* [[deb]] (Debian package)
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* [[EA archive]]
 
* [[Eschalon Setup archive]] (.arv)
 
* [[Eschalon Setup archive]] (.arv)
 
* [[FIZ]]
 
* [[FIZ]]
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* [[IPS manifest|Image Packaging System (IPS) manifest]] (.p5m)
 
* [[IPS manifest|Image Packaging System (IPS) manifest]] (.p5m)
 
* [[Inno Setup self-extracting archive]]
 
* [[Inno Setup self-extracting archive]]
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* [[Installer VISE]]
 
* [[InstallShield]]
 
* [[InstallShield]]
 
** [[InstallShield archive (IBT)]]
 
** [[InstallShield archive (IBT)]]
 
** [[InstallShield CAB]]
 
** [[InstallShield CAB]]
 
** [[InstallShield installer archive]]
 
** [[InstallShield installer archive]]
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** [[InstallShield PKG]]
 
** [[InstallShield Self-Extracting EXE]]
 
** [[InstallShield Self-Extracting EXE]]
 
** [[InstallShield Z]]
 
** [[InstallShield Z]]
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* [[OS/2 PACK archive]]
 
* [[OS/2 PACK archive]]
 
* [[OS/2 PACK2 archive]] (FTCOMP)
 
* [[OS/2 PACK2 archive]] (FTCOMP)
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* [[Packaged Activity]] (Microsoft Train Simulator)
 
* [[Package File (OS X)]] (.pkg)
 
* [[Package File (OS X)]] (.pkg)
 
* [[PackageForTheWeb]]
 
* [[PackageForTheWeb]]
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* [[QIP (Quarterdeck)]]
 
* [[QIP (Quarterdeck)]]
 
* [[RED (Knowledge Dynamics)]]
 
* [[RED (Knowledge Dynamics)]]
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* [[RPM]] (RedHat Package Manager)
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* [[RPM]] (formerly known as RedHat Package Manager, nowadays RPM Package Manager)<ref>[[wikipedia:RPM_Package_Manager|RPM Package Manager - Wikipedia]]</ref>
 
* [[Setup Factory]] (Indigo Rose Software)
 
* [[Setup Factory]] (Indigo Rose Software)
 
* [[SIS]] (Symbian)
 
* [[SIS]] (Symbian)
 
* [[Snap]]
 
* [[Snap]]
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* Sweet Home 3D
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** [[Sweet Home 3D Furniture Library]]
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** [[Sweet Home 3D Plug-in]]
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** [[Sweet Home 3D Texture Library]]
 
* [[SWG]] (SWAG)
 
* [[SWG]] (SWAG)
 
* [[Unity package file]]
 
* [[Unity package file]]
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* [[Wise installer package]]
 
* [[Wise installer package]]
 
* [[XAR (Executable Archive)]]
 
* [[XAR (Executable Archive)]]
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* [[XP3]] (KiriKiri Adventure Game System)
 
* [[Z/Install]]
 
* [[Z/Install]]
 
* [[ZSoft ZPK2]]
 
* [[ZSoft ZPK2]]
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* [[COMPACK]] / BUILDSFX
 
* [[COMPACK]] / BUILDSFX
 
* [[LHA/LHarc self-extracting archive]]
 
* [[LHA/LHarc self-extracting archive]]
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* [[makeself]] [https://github.com/megastep/makeself]
 
* [[NETSEND]]
 
* [[NETSEND]]
 
* [[PMsfx]]
 
* [[PMsfx]]
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* [[SCRNCH]] (in "write mode")
 
* [[SDA]] (Self Dissolving Archive)
 
* [[SDA]] (Self Dissolving Archive)
 
* [[SEA (StuffIt)]] (StuffIt Self-Extracting Archive)
 
* [[SEA (StuffIt)]] (StuffIt Self-Extracting Archive)
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* [http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg13094.html Discussion of proposed top-level MIME type for 'archive']
 
* [http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg13094.html Discussion of proposed top-level MIME type for 'archive']
 
* [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/02/what-do-you-mean-by-archive-genres-of-usage-for-digital-preservers/ What Do you Mean by Archive? Genres of Usage for Digital Preservers]
 
* [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/02/what-do-you-mean-by-archive-genres-of-usage-for-digital-preservers/ What Do you Mean by Archive? Genres of Usage for Digital Preservers]
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== References ==
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Latest revision as of 14:20, 30 August 2025

File Format
Name Archiving
Ontology

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(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

Contents

[edit] Archiving only

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

[edit] Text-based

[edit] Compression + archiving

(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller. See Compression for formats that compress single files/streams, and Disk Image Formats for formats that capture the low-level structure of a disk)

[edit] Diff files

(containing only the parts of a file that have changed, so they can be applied to an existing file to update it; used for update distribution and incremental backups)

See also Wikipedia:Data differencing.

[edit] Versioning files

(contains multiple versions of files, often just saving the differences to save space)

(often a filesystem-level capability, such as ZFS and Btrfs snapshots and Windows Shadow Copy)

See also Revision control systems / code repositories

[edit] Encrypted or cryptographically signed archives

[edit] File splitting

(1 file => multiple files. Most file splitting utilities just produce raw file fragments, and don't have a native file format. But some use a container format, and some create a separate "control" file for metadata.)

Also, the two sorts of Horcrux, Horcrux (jesseduffield) and Horcrux (kndyry), are split-and-encrypted files.

[edit] Filesystem backup and restoration

Formats designed for backing up disks, usually specifically targeted at particular filesystems (but backing it up in the form of file structures, not raw sector images like Disk Image Formats).

See also Backup.

[edit] Fake archiving

Beware of these; they purport to be archivers but aren't really; you might lose any data you entrust to them. Could be somebody's idea of humor or malware.

[edit] Institutional archiving

[edit] Metadata formats

(see also Metadata, Bibliographic data)

[edit] Program/App/Applet/Installer specialized archive formats

[edit] 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. In many cases, if you rename the extension to the appropriate one for the archive type involved, e.g., .zip, the file will open in the appropriate archiver, which is handy for extracting them on systems not compatible with the original executable.)

[edit] Software

Refer to Compression and archiving software.

[edit] Transfer formats

(encapsulate a system-specific file structure to make it compatible with foreign systems, file transfer protocols, etc.)

For low-level transfer encodings, see Transfer Encodings.

[edit] Uncategorized

[edit] See also

[edit] Links

[edit] References

  1. ↑ RPM Package Manager - Wikipedia
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