“Convert the POR files in my Downloads folder to ARROW”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.por -c "convert to arrow"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert POR to ARROW?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.por -c "convert to arrow" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
A POR file is an SPSS dataset in the old portable format, a text encoding meant to move data between machines.
An Arrow IPC file holds a data table in Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout, so it can be memory-mapped and read without conversion. Feather version 2 files are the same format.