Archive File Format

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An Archive File Format is a file format for archive files.



References

2020

  • (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_file#Archive_formats Retrieved:2020-6-16.
    • An archive format is the file format of an archive file. Some formats are well-defined by their authors and have become conventions supported by multiple vendors and communities.
    • Types:
    • Archiving only formats store metadata and concatenate files.
    • Compression only formats only compress files.
    • Multi-function formats can store metadata, concatenate, compress, encrypt, create error detection and recovery information, and package the archive into self-extracting and self-expanding files.
    • Software packaging formats are used to create software packages that may be self-installing files.
    • Disk image formats are used to create disk images of mass storage volumes.