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This is a list of formats used by Archiving software in archiving and data compression.
- 7z, see also the 7-zip website (http://www.7-zip.org).
- ACE, a proprietary format.
- ar, the classic Unix non-compressing archiving format.
- ARJ, and its successor JAR (not to be confused with jar, i.e. Java ARchive files), see also the website of ARJ Software, Inc. (http://www.arjsoft.com/)
- bzip2, extension '.bz2'; see also the Bzip2 website (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/)
- CAB, the Microsoft Windows native archive format.
- Compress, extension '.Z'; format used in Unix, mostly superseded by GZip.
- cpio, see also the GNU cpio website (http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/cpio.html).
- deb, the Debian Linux package format.
- DGCA, extension .dgc
- GCA, predecessor of DGCA.
- gzip, extension '.gz'; the usual format for distributing Unix files is '.tar.gz'.
- LHA, extension '.lzh'; the Amiga standard format.
- RAR, a proprietary format.
- RPM, a widespread Linux package format.
- shar, a Unix self-extracting shell archive format.
- sea, an Apple Macintosh self-extracting shell archive format.
- StuffIt, extension '.sit' a (mainly) Apple Macintosh compression format.
- tar, a format for archiving files without compressing. Compression is usually subsequently applied using gzip or bzip2.
- zip, the most widely used compressed format in the IBM PC world. Also the format used for jar, i.e. Java ARchive files.
- zoo (file format)
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