SAR (Streamline Design)

File Format
Name	SAR (Streamline Design)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving SAR (Streamline Design)
Extension(s)	.sar
Released	1993

SAR (Streamline Arching Utility, or Streamline Archival Utility) is a compressed archive utility, and associated file format. It was developed by Streamline Design Company, and distributed as shareware.

Format details

Both the header format and the compressed data format have clear similarities to LHA. The extent of the similarities is not known.

Identification

SAR files apparently have bytes 0x20 'L' 'H' ?? 0x20 at offset 2. Possible values for the "??" byte include, but might not be limited to, '0' and '5'.

Software

• SAR v1.00 (DOS software)