Talk:List of archive formats

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I think that the .pkg's official package format should be called Installation Package or Package as per this developer article. - JustinWick 18:10, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

1 Missing packages
2 Derivative archive formats
3 Compressed tarballs
4 DMG not package format?
5 uif advertisement?
6 lzs
7 Missing compression format UC2

[edit] Missing packages

.cab
Python .egg
Ruby .gem
WinAce .xef (compressed file that has been encrypted)

(cleaned up by Jokes Free4Me 15:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Derivative archive formats

Derivative archive formats such as JAR (which is ZIP), XPI (Mozilla Installers are also ZIP), EAR and other such extensions which aren't specifically formats, but have a archive format. My reasoning is that you would possible visit this page in order to identify a file and this would help users to identify their JAR as a ZIP file and ths enabling them to figure out how to decompress it.

Do we really need it? Can't they go to wotsit.org or even Google? I am not against the idea, as I have just been thinking about mentioning formats found in common games, such as WAD (Doom, ROTT), PAK (Quake, Quake2) and PK3 (games using the Quake3 engine, such as ET and RTCW). PK3 is a ZIP. -Jen 17:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know about the '.mrs' archive?

I've been updating the CDisplay_RAR_Archived_Comic_Book_File page which uses .cbr (renamed RAR file) and .cbz (renamed ZIP file) to store digital comic books. Should they be included too? Laura Seabrook 11:16 29 August 2006 [GMT+10]

[edit] Compressed tarballs

How do .tar.gz/.tgz, .tar.bz2/.tbz2 and .tar.Z qualify as file formats? A .tgz e.g. is a gzip-compressed tar-archive after all. So how is it any different to a normal .gz? .tar is already mentioned as an archiving format. --elias.hc 18:15, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DMG not package format?

Aren't .dmg files more packages than pure archive formats? So it should be moved to the package section, shouldn't it? Theshibboleth 03:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] uif advertisement?

The "Description" entry for UIF in the "Archiving and Compression" section sounds a little like advertising to me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.37.176.41 (talk • contribs).

Agree. I just tagged the main article, feel free to touch up the section as you see fit. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 03:47, 10 November 2006 (UTC)