ERI (compressed archive)
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Latest revision as of 14:58, 22 May 2021
ERI, or Eri32, is a compression/archiving utility for DOS, and its associated .ERI file format. It was developed by RAO Inc. and/or Alexander Ratushnyak. It is promoted as a "multimedia archiver" (a term that probably means something to compression experts).
It is closely related to ARI. The exact nature of the relationship is not clear, but ERI is newer.
[edit] Format details
ERI format seems to be nearly identical to ARI format in structure, but with the filename padded with NUL bytes instead of spaces. The compression is incompatible.
[edit] Software
- ERI 4.5fre (1999?)
- ERI 5.1fre (2002?)
Pointers to other versions might be found by searching for documents named "The Art Of Lossless Data Compression" (e.g. these archives of geocities.com/eri32/).
