Tape Archive

archive · also known as tar

An archive format originally intended to archive files on backup tapes without a file system of their own. TAR files are usually uncompressed.

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• libarchiveOpen sourcereads and writes · 2-clause BSD License
• ouchOpen sourcereads and writes · MIT License
• Q1275912Open sourcereads and writes · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0 or later
• Q215051Open sourcereads and writes · GNU Lesser General Public License
• Apache TikaOpen sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0
• HachoirOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
• PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
• ZipegOpen sourcereads · BSD licenses
• GNU tarreads and writes
• Mathematicareads and writes · proprietary license
• ABViewerreads
• ACDSeereads · proprietary license
• Advanced Guard for Information Securityreads
• Altap Salamanderreads
• ALZipreads · freeware
• Archive Utilityreads
• B1 Free Archiverreads · proprietary license
• diffoscopereads
• PowerArchiverreads
• PuriFilereads
• WinRARreads · proprietary license
• WinZipreads · shareware

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Sources

• File Formats Wiki
• PRONOM x-fmt/265
• Wikidata Q283579

From Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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