- Extension
- .arc
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Other
- Developer
- System Enhancement Associates
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- An ARC archive is a compressed file archive from the MS-DOS and bulletin-board era, made by SEA's ARC program; unrelated to Norton backup files that also use .arc.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-arc
- application/x-tar
