This is a list of formats used by file archiver in archiving and data compression.
Archiving only
Compression only
Archiving and compression
| File extension(s)[1]
| MIME type[2]
| Official name[3]
| Platform[4]
| Description
|
| .7z
| application/x-7z-compressed
| 7-Zip format
| Multiple
|
|
| .ace
|
| WinACE
| Windows
|
|
| .arj
|
| ARJ
|
|
|
| .cab
|
| Cabinet
| Windows
| The Microsoft Windows native archive format, which is also used by many commercial installers such as InstallShield, WISE, and InstallAware.
|
| .dgc
|
| DGCA
|
|
|
| .dmg
|
| Disk Image
| Mac OS X
| Supports "internet-enabled" disk images, which, once downloaded, are automatically decompressed, mounted, have the contents extracted, and thrown away.
|
| .gca
|
| GCA
|
| The predecessor of DGCA.
|
| .j
|
| Jar
|
| Jar archive, the successor to ARJ
|
| .jar
|
| Jar
|
| Java ARchive.
|
| .lzh, .lha
|
| LHA
| Amiga
| The standard format on Amiga.
|
| .lzx
|
| LZX
| Amiga
| Archiver originally used on Amiga. Now used in the Microsoft .cab files..
|
| .rar
| application/x-rar-compressed
| RAR
| Windows
|
|
| .sea
|
| sea
| Macintosh
| A pre-Mac OS X self-extracting shell archive format.
|
| .sit
|
| StuffIt
| Macintosh
| A compression format common on Apple Macintosh computers.
|
|
| .zip
| application/zip
| PKZIP (aka ZIP)
| Windows, Mac OS X
| The most widely used compression format on Microsoft Windows.
|
| .zoo
|
| zoo
| Multiple
| zoo
|
Unknown
Package formats
Footnotes
[1] (File extensions)—The file extensions may differ across platforms. The case of these extensions may differ on case-insensitve platforms.
[2] (MIME type)—The content types may be conjectural.
[3] (Official name)—The official names may be disputed.
[4] (Platform)—Indicates the platform under which a format is most common. Most file formats can be understood by more than one platform.
Platforms
See also
