ARS
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
ARS is a DOS utility that creates self-extracting compressed archives in EXE format. It was developed by Stepanyuk V. Oleg (maybe also written "Oleg Stepanyuk").
Identification
[Only v2.1.1 has been evaluated.]
The first 11806 bytes are probably always the same. There is an apparent signature at the start of the "overlay" segment (refer to MS-DOS EXE#Special file positions) at offset 11792: byte 0x0d, followed by ASCII "(C) STEPANYUK". (Caution: The few bytes after this string might be garbage.)
Software
- ARS v2.1.1 (also uses version number "2.1")
Links
- Oddin Software website archives - Apparently associated with the author, though no mention of ARS.
