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An archive format originally used mainly for archiving and distribution of the exact, nearly-exact, or custom-modified contents of an optical storage medium such as a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. However, it can be used to archive the contents of other storage media, selected partitions, folders, and/or files.
Information about what archive formats the archivers [a] can write and create. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the archiver or extensions that provide such functionality. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are compression formats rather than archive formats.
If the archive is compressed, libarchive also detects and handles compression formats before evaluating the archive. [6] libarchive is designed to minimize the copying of data internally for optimal performance. [7] Supported archive formats: [8] 7z – read and write; ar – read and write; cab – read only; cpio – read and write; ISO9660 ...
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression.A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common.
Archive files are particularly useful in that they store file system data and metadata within the contents of a particular file, and thus can be stored on systems or sent over channels that do not support the file system in question, only file contents – examples include sending a directory structure over email, files with names unsupported on the target file system due to length or ...
The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [a] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats. E-book software can be used to convert e-books from one format to another, as well as to create, edit and publish e-books.
The table would be more helpful if it would include the number of the version that could read/write the format first. Like in Comparison of layout engines (XHTML).--Hhielscher 09:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC) There's one archiver missing in the list. I miss the UC and UC2 tool. Peazip: A plethora of supported formats
MAP – format used by Halo: Combat Evolved for archive compression, Doom³, and various other games; MCA – format used by Minecraft for storing data for in-game worlds [35] NBT – format used by Minecraft for storing program variables along with their (Java) type identifiers; OEC – format used by OE-Cake for scene data storage