IDArc
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IDArc is an open source DOS program for identifying archiving and compression formats. It was developed by Jürgen Peters.
Some of its format knowledge has been incorporated into the File command's database.
External links
- IDArc v2.15.01-German (2003-10-10)
- IDArc v2.15.01-English
- Archived website - German
- Archived website - English
IDArc version 2.15.03 (2004-02-02) apparently exists, but has not been located.
List of recognized formats
List of recognized formats, from version 2.15.01:
| ID | Name | References | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARC | ARC (compression format) | |
| 2 | ZIP | ZIP, Self-extracting ZIP | |
| 3 | ZOO | Zoo | |
| 4 | LZH | LHA | |
| 5 | DWC | DWC | |
| 6 | MDCD | MDCD | |
| 7 | LBR | LBR | |
| 8 | ARJ | ARJ | |
| 9 | HYP | Hyper archive | |
| 10 | UC2 | UltraCompressor II | |
| 11 | HAP | HAP | |
| 12 | HA | HA | |
| 13 | HPack (HPK) | HPACK (compressed archive) | |
| 14 | SQZ (Squeeze It) | Squeeze It | |
| 15 | RAR | RAR | |
| 16 | PAK | PAK (ARC extension) | |
| 17 | ARC+ | ARC (compression format)#ARC Plus | |
| 18 | LIM | LIMIT | |
| 19 | BSN (BSA/PTS-DOS) | BSArc and BSA | |
| 20 | PUT | PUT | |
| 21 | SQWEZ | SQWEZ | |
| 22 | Crush/ZIP | CRUSH + ZIP | |
| 23 | Crush/ARJ | CRUSH + ARJ | |
| 24 | Crush/LZH | CRUSH + LHA | |
| 25 | Crush/ZOO | CRUSH + Zoo | |
| 26 | Crush/HA | CRUSH + HA | |
| 27 | LZExe | LZEXE | |
| 28 | PKLite | PKLITE | |
| 29 | Diet | DIET (compression) | |
| 30 | TinyProg | TINYPROG | |
| 31 | GIF | GIF | |
| 32 | JPG (JFIF) | JFIF | |
| 33 | JPG (HSI) | HSI JPEG | |
| 34 | AIN | AIN | |
| 35 | AINEXE | AIN#AINEXE | |
| 36 | SAR | SAR (Streamline Design) | |
| 37 | BS2/BSArc | BSArc and BSA | |
| 38 | GZIP/Comp 4.3 | Gzip, compress (Unix) | |
| 39 | ACB | ACB (compressed archive) | |
| 40 | MAR | Micrognosis Compression Archiver | |
| 41 | CPZ (CPShrink) | ‡ | |
| 42 | JRC | JRchive | |
| 43 | JArcs | JARCS | |
| 44 | Quantum | Quantum compressed archive | |
| 45 | ReSOF | ‡ (sofcomp2.zip) | |
| 46 | Crush/uncompressed | CRUSH | |
| 47 | ARX | ARX | |
| 48 | UCEXE | UltraCompressor II#UCEXE | |
| 49 | WWPack | WWPACK | |
| 50 | QuArk | ‡ | |
| 51 | YAC | YAC | |
| 52 | X1 | X (X1) | |
| 53 | Codec | CODEC (Telvox) | |
| 54 | AMGC | AMG (compressed archive) | |
| 55 | NuLIB | ‡ (ibmnulib.zip) | |
| 56 | PAKLeo (PLL) | ‡ | |
| 57 | TGZ | Gzip (or tar + Gzip) | |
| 58 | WWPack-Data | WWPACK | |
| 59 | ChArc | ‡ | |
| 60 | PSA | Pretty Simple Archiver | |
| 61 | ZAR | ||
| 62 | LHark | LHARK | |
| 63 | CrossePAC | ‡ | |
| 64 | Freeze | Freeze/Melt | |
| 65 | KBoom | ‡ | |
| 66 | NSQ | Squeeze | |
| 67 | DPA | ‡ (dpa11a.zip) (Dirks Packer, by Dirk Paehl) | |
| 68 | TTComp | TTComp archive | |
| 69 | WIC (Fake!) | ‡ | |
| 70 | RKive | RKIVE | |
| 71 | JAR | JAR (ARJ Software) | |
| 72 | ESP | ESP (compressed archive) | |
| 73 | ZPack | Z/Install Lite | |
| 74 | DRY | (Dehydrated) | |
| 75 | OWS (Fake!) | ‡ | |
| 76 | SKY | SKY (compressed archive) | |
| 77 | ARI | ARI (compressed archive) | |
| 78 | UFA | UFA | |
| 79 | Microsoft CAB | Cabinet | |
| 80 | FOXSQZ | ‡ | |
| 81 | AR7 | AR7 | |
| 82 | TSComp | TSComp | |
| 83 | PPMZ | ‡ | |
| 84 | MS Compress | MS-DOS installation compression | |
| 85 | MP3 (Marco Czudej) | MPC (Marco Czudej) | |
| 86 | ZET | Zet | |
| 87 | XPack Data | XPACK | |
| 88 | XPack Diskimage | XPACK | |
| 89 | ARQ | ‡ | |
| 90 | ACE | ACE | |
| 91 | Squash | Squash ARH | |
| 92 | Terse | TERSE | |
| 93 | XPack single data | XPACK | |
| 94 | Stuffit (Mac) | StuffIt | |
| 95 | PUCrunch | ‡ | |
| 96 | BZip | bzip | |
| 97 | UHarc | UHARC | |
| 98 | ABComp | ABComp | |
| 99 | CMP (André Olejko) | ||
| 100 | BZip2 | bzip2 | |
| 101 | LZOP | lzop | |
| 102 | szip | Sunzip | |
| 103 | Splint | Splint | |
| 104 | TAR | Tape Archive | |
| 105 | InstallShield | ||
| 106 | CARComp | CAR (CarComp) | |
| 107 | LZS | LArc | |
| 108 | BOA | ‡ | |
| 109 | InstallShield Z | InstallShield Z | |
| 110 | ARG | ARG | |
| 111 | Gather | ‡ | |
| 112 | Pack Magic | ||
| 113 | BTS | ‡ (Big Tree Software Archiver) | |
| 114 | ELI 5750 | ‡ | |
| 115 | QFC | ‡ | |
| 116 | PRO-PACK | Pro-Pack | |
| 117 | MSXiE | MSXiE | |
| 118 | RAX | RAX (compressed archive) | |
| 119 | 777 | 777 | |
| 120 | LZS221 | LZS221 | (Stac) |
| 121 | HPA | ‡ (Hungarian Pirate Alliance) | |
| 122 | Arhangel | ARHANGEL | |
| 123 | EXP1 | ‡ (Bulat Ziganshin) | |
| 124 | IMP | IMP | |
| 125 | BMF | BMF (Dmitry Shkarin) | |
| 126 | NRV | (Markus Oberhumer) | |
| 127 | oPAQue | oPAQue | |
| 128 | Squish (Mike Albert) | Squish (Mike Albert) | |
| 129 | Par | ‡ (Philipp Druyts) | |
| 130 | HIT (Bogdan Ureche) | ‡ | |
| 131 | SBX | ‡ | |
| 132 | NaShrinK | NaShrinK | |
| 133 | Disintegrator | ‡ (dst09b.zip) (DST, by Tommaso Guglielmi) | |
| 134 | ASD (T. Svensson) | ASD Archiver | |
| 135 | InstallShield CAB | InstallShield CAB | |
| 136 | TOP4 | Top4 | |
| 137 | BatComp (4DOS) | 4DOS compressed batch file | |
| 138 | BlakHole | BlakHole | |
| 139 | BIX (Igor Pavlov) | BIX | |
| 140 | ChiefLZA | ChiefLZ archive format | |
| 141 | Blink (D.T.S.) | ‡ | |
| 142 | CAR (MylesHi!) | CAR (MylesHi!) | |
| 143 | SARJ | SARJ | |
| 144 | Compack Sfx | COMPACK | |
| 145 | Logitech Compress | ||
| 146 | ARS-Sfx | ‡ | |
| 147 | AKT | ‡ | |
| 148 | Flash | Flash (Micro TECH Systems) | |
| 149 | PC/3270 | ‡ | |
| 150 | NPack | NPack | |
| 151 | PFT | (Perfect Finishing Touch) | |
| 152 | Xtreme | ‡ | |
| 153 | SemOne | SEMONE | |
| 154 | AKT32 | ‡ | |
| 155 | InstallIt | ||
| 156 | PPMD | PPMd | |
| 157 | Swag | SWG | |
| 158 | FIZ | ||
| 159 | BA (M. Lundqvist) | ‡ | |
| 160 | XPA32 (J. Tseng) | ‡ | |
| 161 | RK (M.Taylor) | RK | |
| 162 | RPM | RPM | |
| 163 | DeepFreezer | Yamazaki zipper archive | |
| 164 | ZZip (Damien Debin) | Zzip | |
| 165 | DC (Edgar Binder) | ‡ | |
| 166 | TPac (Tim Gordon) | TPAC (Tim Gordon) | |
| 167 | Ai (E.Ilya) | ||
| 168 | Ybs (Vadim Yoockin) | ‡ | |
| 169 | Ai32 (E.Ilya) | ‡ | |
| 170 | SBC (Sami Mäkinen) | ‡ | |
| 171 | DitPack | ‡ | |
| 172 | DMS | Disk Masher System | |
| 173 | EPC | ||
| 174 | VSARC | (Vectorsoft) | |
| 175 | PDZ | ‡ | |
| 176 | Package for the Web | PackageForTheWeb | |
| 177 | NullSoft Installer | NSIS | |
| 178 | Wise Installer | Wise installer package | |
| 179 | DZip (Nolan Pflug) | Dzip | |
| 180 | 7z | 7z | |
| 181 | ReDuq (J. Mintjes) | ‡ | |
| 182 | aPackage | ||
| 183 | WinImage | ||
| 184 | GCA | GCA | |
| 185 | PPMN (Max Smirnov) | ‡ | |
| 186 | SAPCAR | CAR (SAP), SAR | |
| 187 | Compressia | ‡ | |
| 188 | UHBC | ‡ | |
| 189 | PKZip6/BZip2 | ZIP with bzip2 compression |
A ‡ symbol means the software is probably available in the SAC collection.
