Archiving

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* [[Softlib]] (Softdisk Publishing)
 
* [[Softlib]] (Softdisk Publishing)
 
* [[Spark]] (.spk)
 
* [[Spark]] (.spk)
* [[Stuffit]] (.sit)
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* [[StuffIt]] (.sit)
* [[Stuffit X]] (.sitx)
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* [[StuffIt X]] (.sitx)
 
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
 
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
 
* [[WARC]] (.warc, .warc.gz)
 
* [[WARC]] (.warc, .warc.gz)

Revision as of 12:59, 11 January 2013

File Format
Name Archiving
Ontology

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

See also: Compression, Error correction

Contents

Archiving only

(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)

Compression + archiving

(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller. See Compression for formats that compress single files/streams, and Disk Image Formats for formats that capture the low-level structure of a disk)

Diff files

(containing only the parts of a file that have changed, so they can be applied to an existing file to update it; used for update distribution and incremental backups)

Institutional archiving

Metadata formats

Self-extracting archives

(in addition, some of the other archivers are able to produce executable files for some platform which include the archived data and a program to extract them, and generally have the file extension normal for executables, such as .exe for DOS/Windows)

  • SDA (Self Dissolving Archive)
  • SEA (Self-Extracting Archive]
  • SFX (Self-Extracting Archive)
  • shar (Shell Archive, in Unix-like systems)

Transfer encodings

(convert binaries to printable ASCII for download; encode resource forks or metadata together with file, etc.)

(see also E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums for transfer encodings used in such media)

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