- Extension
- .arc
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- System Enhancement Associates
- GNU
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-arc
- application/x-compressed
