Talk:List of archive formats

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[edit] Purpose (Statement of Intent)

This article has no defined purpose or statement of intent. It is also in duplication/competition with the article Comparison of archive formats. Request discussion on the purpose and intent of this aub-article to differentiate it from other sub-articles.

[edit] .pkg rename to Package

I think that the .pkg's official package format should be called Installation Package or Package as per this developer article. - JustinWick 18:10, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Missing packages

(cleaned up by Jokes Free4Me 15:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Derivative archive formats

Derivative archive formats such as JAR (which is ZIP), XPI (Mozilla Installers are also ZIP), EAR and other such extensions which aren't specifically formats, but have a archive format. My reasoning is that you would possible visit this page in order to identify a file and this would help users to identify their JAR as a ZIP file and ths enabling them to figure out how to decompress it.

Do we really need it? Can't they go to wotsit.org or even Google? I am not against the idea, as I have just been thinking about mentioning formats found in common games, such as WAD (Doom, ROTT), PAK (Quake, Quake2) and PK3 (games using the Quake3 engine, such as ET and RTCW). PK3 is a ZIP. -Jen 17:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know about the '.mrs' archive?

I've been updating the CDisplay_RAR_Archived_Comic_Book_File page which uses .cbr (renamed RAR file) and .cbz (renamed ZIP file) to store digital comic books. Should they be included too? Laura Seabrook 11:16 29 August 2006 [GMT+10]

[edit] Compressed tarballs

How do .tar.gz/.tgz, .tar.bz2/.tbz2 and .tar.Z qualify as file formats? A .tgz e.g. is a gzip-compressed tar-archive after all. So how is it any different to a normal .gz? .tar is already mentioned as an archiving format. --elias.hc 18:15, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DMG not package format?

Aren't .dmg files more packages than pure archive formats? So it should be moved to the package section, shouldn't it? Theshibboleth 03:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] uif advertisement?

The "Description" entry for UIF in the "Archiving and Compression" section sounds a little like advertising to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.37.176.41 (talk • contribs)

Agree. I just tagged the main article, feel free to touch up the section as you see fit. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 03:47, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] lzs

Need some infoon this. Rich Farmbrough, 08:45 6 February 2007 (GMT).

[edit] Missing compression format UC2

What about Ultra Compressor 2 and it's .uc2 files? http://www.xs4all.nl/~aipnl/ http://www.really-fine.com/File_Type_U.html http://compression.ca/act/act-index.html

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.174.42.166 (talk • contribs)

What about it? — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 12:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Free software RAR decompression

Does unrar-GPL come under the RAR 2.0 and earlier only category? --Tene 09:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


No free decompression software for .rar? This is untrue. I use UnRarX and it's completely free. It's also listed on Apple's page as freeware: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/unrarx.html

pogo (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 21:16, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Package Formats Deletion

First off, why are pacakges even listed? They are neither a compression nor archive format. The fact that they are as "Same as a ZIP file with a madatory blah blah blah" indicates this. Package format listings belong on a separate page which should reference the archive and compression schemes used.

While you can make an argument that package formats are an archive format at heart, it's harder to justify putting Data Recovery formats on this page. 209.139.192.243 17:50, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] JZip article nominated for deletion

Please help discuss that on its AfD page. --AVRS 16:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ECC & recovery data

This list should include a column for whether or not the file format has error correction codes and recovery data built in. For example, rar files have this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.87.231.176 (talk) 19:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)