Archive file formats
Archive and compression formats used to package, distribute, compress and preserve collections of files.
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An archive format developed for 7-Zip that supports multiple compression methods, solid compression, and AES-256 encryption.
A simple Unix archive format best known for storing static libraries and for acting as a container inside package formats such as Debian DEB files.
A single-stream compressed file format produced by bzip2, using Burrows-Wheeler block sorting and Huffman coding for lossless compression.
A Microsoft archive format designed to package and compress groups of files, commonly used by Windows installers, drivers, and software distribution systems.
A Unix archive format and family of related layouts used to combine files and metadata into a sequential archive stream.
The binary package format used by Debian and Debian-based Linux distributions, built as an ar archive containing package metadata and compressed filesystem data.
A compressed data format that applies gzip compression to a byte stream and is commonly paired with TAR archives on Unix-like systems.
A proprietary archive format designed for compressed file storage, multi-volume archives, recovery data, and encryption.
An archive format originally developed for Unix systems that combines multiple files into one stream without providing compression itself.
A lossless compressed stream container commonly used with LZMA2 and other filters, designed for high compression ratios, integrity checks, and stream concatenation.
A widely used archive format for packaging one or more files, usually with compression and optionally with encryption.
A lossless compressed data format using the Zstandard algorithm, designed for fast decompression, scalable compression levels, and streaming use.