ARC (FreeArc)

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'''FreeArc''' fills the urgent need of the computer community for another archiving program which produces files with a '''.arc''' extension that are not compatible with any of the files with a '''.arc''' extension produced by [[ARC|other archivers]] that are not compatible with one another's files either.
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'''FreeArc''' is a full-featured archiving application, developed by Bulat Ziganshin. Its native '''.arc''' format is unfortunately not compatible with any of the [[ARC|other ".arc" formats]].
  
Its official site (when it still existed; at last check it's a domain parking page) featured downloads of Windows and Linux versions of FreeArc, documentation which appears to be translated from Russian (don't use the table-of-contents links at the top of the documentation, as they inexplicably fail to link to the anchors within the document itself and instead go off to some Russian translation site), a "community forum" section with such scintillating message threads as "Buy metronidazole 500mg online no prescription.", and a downloadable set of source code which might be of use to somebody attempting to figure out the details of the file format, since the documentation doesn't give this sort of detail.
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Its official site (when it still existed) featured downloads of Windows and Linux versions of FreeArc, documentation, and a downloadable set of source code which might be of use to somebody attempting to figure out the details of the file format, since the documentation doesn't give this sort of detail.
  
 
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Revision as of 14:42, 8 February 2024

File Format
Name ARC (FreeArc)
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Extension(s) .arc
PRONOM fmt/1096

FreeArc is a full-featured archiving application, developed by Bulat Ziganshin. Its native .arc format is unfortunately not compatible with any of the other ".arc" formats.

Its official site (when it still existed) featured downloads of Windows and Linux versions of FreeArc, documentation, and a downloadable set of source code which might be of use to somebody attempting to figure out the details of the file format, since the documentation doesn't give this sort of detail.

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