Packer

Packer is a suite of archiving and compression utilities for Sirius DOS and A*. It supports several archive formats and compression algorithms.

Container formats

Ident	Name	ext	Read	Write	Notes
ar	UNIX archive	.a	✔	✔
dlbr	DOS LBR	.lbr	✔	✖	Not to be confused with clbr, a Commodore 64 format with the same name
clbr	Commodore LBR	.clb	✔	✖	Not to be confused with dlbr, a DOS format with the same name
mar	Mozilla archive	.mar	✔	✖	Used to store binary diffs
sbx	SeqBox	.sbx	✔	✖	Designed for resilience in lieu of file system corruption
tar	Tape archive, or tarball	.tar	✔	✔
7zip	7zip archive	.7z	✔	✖
ace	ACE archiver	.ace	✔	〜
alz	ALZip	.alz	✔	〜
apk	Aape package	.apk	✔	✔
arc	ARC	.arc	✔	〜
arj	ARJ	.arj	✔	〜
b1	B1	.b1	✔	〜
b6z	B6Z	.b6z	✔	〜
scifer	BA	.ba	✔	✖
car	Compressia archive	.car	✔	〜
cfs	Compact file set	.cfs	✔	〜
cpt	Compact Pro	.cpt	✔	〜
dar	Disk Archiver	.dar	✔	〜
dgca	DGCA	.dgc	✔	〜
dmg	Disk image	.dmg	✔	〜
ear	Enterprise application archive	.ear	✔	〜	Enterprise Java deployment archive from Jakarta EE
ha	HA	.cfs	✔	〜
hki	WinHKI	.hki	✔	〜
ice	ICE	.ice	✔	〜
kgb	KGB	.kgb	✔	〜
lzh	LZH, a.k.a. LHA	.lzh	✔	〜	Amiga
lzx	LZX	.lzx	✔	〜	Amiga
pak	PAK	.pak	✔	〜	Competitor of ARC
pea	PeaZzip	.pea	✔	✖
phar	PHAR	.phr	✔	〜
pim	PIM	.pim	✔	〜
pit	PackIt	.pit	✔	〜
qda	Quadruple D archive	.qda	✔	〜
rar	WinRAR	.rar	✔	✖
rk	RK	.rk	✔	✖
sda	Self-dissolving archive	.sda	✔	✖	Not portable
sea	Self-extracting archive	.sea	✔	〜	Created with StuffIt, Compact Pro and Disk Doubler
sfx	Self-extracting archive	.sfx	✔	〜	Portable successor to the sda format
shk	SHK	.shk	✔	〜	NuFX archive
sit	StuffIt	.sit	✔	〜
sqx	SQX	.sqx	✔	〜
uc	UltraCompressor	.uc	✔	〜
uca	PerfectCompress	.uca	✔	〜
uha	UHarc	.uha	✔	〜
wim	Windows image	.wim	✔	〜
xar	XAR	.xar	✔	〜
xp3	KiriKiri	.xp3	✔	〜
yz1	Yamazaki zipper archive	.pit	✔	〜
zip	Zipped folder	.zip	✔	〜
br	Brotli	.br	✔	✖
bz2	Bzip2	.bz2	✔	✔
bz3	Bzip3	.bz3	✔	✖
gzip	GZip	.gz	✔	✔
lzip	Lzip	.lz	✔	✔
lz4	LZ4	.lz4	✔	✔
lzo	LZO	.lzo	✔	✔
rz	rzip	.rz	✔	✖
xz	XZ	.xz	✔	✖
lzw	LZW	.z	✔	✔
zst	Zstandard	.zst	✔	✖
lzss	LZSS	.lzs	✔	✔