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

SAR appears to be based on generalized LHA format. It's not clear if SAR's " LH5 " compression scheme is identical to the standard "-lh5-" scheme, but it's at least very similar.

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)

Sample files

• dexvert samples — archive/streamlineDesignSAR