{
 "id": "cpio-new-ascii-variant",
 "name": "cpio, new ASCII variant",
 "family": "cpio",
 "category": "other",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "cpio"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q29141541"
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "file format",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "GNU cpio",
   "url": "https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "7-Zip (WebAssembly)",
   "url": "https://github.com/use-strict/7z-wasm",
   "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later (unRAR restriction)",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "via": "cpio"
  },
  {
   "name": "Apache Tika",
   "url": "https://tika.apache.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Apache Software License 2.0",
   "open_source": true,
   "via": "cpio"
  },
  {
   "name": "Archive Utility",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q963462",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "via": "cpio"
  },
  {
   "name": "B1 Free Archiver",
   "url": "http://www.b1.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "proprietary license",
   "via": "cpio"
  },
  {
   "name": "diffoscope",
   "url": "https://diffoscope.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "via": "cpio"
  },
  {
   "name": "libarchive",
   "url": "https://libarchive.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "2-clause BSD License",
   "open_source": true,
   "via": "cpio"
  },
  {
   "name": "Q215051",
   "url": "https://7-zip.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true,
   "via": "cpio"
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q29141541",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29141541",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "parsers": [
  {
   "engine": "kaitai",
   "url": "https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/blob/master/archive/cpio_old_le.ksy",
   "license": "CC0-1.0",
   "via": "cpio"
  }
 ],
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "zip",
   "tool": "7-Zip (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Files are kept; archive comments, permissions or encryption may not be.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "7zip",
   "via": "cpio"
  },
  {
   "to": "7z",
   "tool": "7-Zip (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Files are kept; archive comments, permissions or encryption may not be.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "7zip",
   "via": "cpio"
  },
  {
   "to": "tape-archive",
   "tool": "7-Zip (WebAssembly)",
   "command": "In the browser at https://openformatdb.org/convert/, or convert_file in the OpenFormatDB MCP server",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Files are kept; archive comments, permissions or encryption may not be.",
   "url": "https://openformatdb.org/convert/",
   "engine": "7zip",
   "via": "cpio"
  }
 ]
}