ACE (file format)
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| ACE | |
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| File extension: | .ace |
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| Developed by: | e-merge GmbH |
| Type of format: | data compression |
In computing, ACE is a proprietary data compression archive file format developed by e-merge GmbH. ACE offers superior compression compared to the ZIP file format, at the cost of a lower compression speed.
The file extension is .ace. The MIME-Type is application/x-ace-compressed.
WinAce, maintained by e-merge GmbH, is used to decompress and manipulate ACE files under Microsoft Windows. There are also older versions of a program called "unace", which are licensed under the GPL but cannot extract ACE archives newer than version 2.0. Besides that, there are some freeware or nagware archivers which can read the format, though none are free software.
ACE is also the name of a file format for sequence assembly, used by e.g. consed, phrap and CAP3.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- WinAce website
- TUGZip also for Windows
- unace (Debian package) - GPL version of unace
- UnAceX for MacOS (GPL)
- The consed manual includes a description of ACE sequence assembly format
