ARC

Archive file format used on bulletin board systems

Entityfile format digital container formatQ296496

Also known as .sue · Arc (compression) · .arc · Arc (file format) · .ark · Thom Henderson

Instance of: file format
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1.archive.org/web/researcher/ArcFileFormat.phpRetrieved 2016-10-14
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, digital container format
Founded: 1985

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ARC is a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates (SEA). The file format and the program were both called ARC. The format is known as the subject of controversy in the 1980s, part of important debates over what would later be known as open formats.

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File extension: arc
ark
sue
Media type: application/x-arc
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1.github.com/file/file/blob/FILE5_45/magic/Magdir/archive#L452-L477
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Developer: System Enhancement Associates
Replaced by: ZIP
Different from: Internet Archive ARC

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3 identifiers linking ARC across the web's reference databases

File Format Wiki page IDARC_(compression_format)
Freebase ID/m/057d9q
Uniform Type Identifierpublic.archive.arc

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