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* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
 
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
 
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
 
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
 
== Stream compression formats ==
 
 
A stream format takes a stream of bytes, and outputs a different, hopefully smaller, stream of bytes. These compression formats are often used internally in other data structures to compress data, as well as in network protocols, such as http. Used stand-alone, a stream compression format does not offer archiving capability, however in the UNIX doctrine, an archiver like [[tar]] can be combined with an archive format to produce a proper compressed archive.
 
 
* [[bzip2]] (.bz2)
 
* [[CCITT Group 4]]
 
* [[CrLZH]] (.?y?)
 
* [[Crunch]] (.?z?)
 
* [[gzip]] (.gz)
 
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
 
* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
 
* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
 
* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
 
* [[LZW]] (.z)
 
* [[Squash (RISC OS)|Squash]] - single file compression on RISC OS
 
* [[Squeeze/SQ]] (.?q?)
 
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
 
  
 
== Self-extracting archives ==
 
== Self-extracting archives ==

Revision as of 18:31, 30 November 2012

File Format
Name Archiving
Ontology

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)


Compression + archiving

(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller)

Archiving only

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

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)

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