Archive Types

Although each archive basically contains collections of files and folders inside them, exactly how they contain these files and folders may change. The details are technical, but what changes between different archive types are:

Archive types are typically identified by their file extensions, rather than the name of the compression algorithm they use. Some of the popular archive types available today, by file extension, are described below:

CompreXX mark4 fully supports all of the above archive types internally - without requiring any external programs!

See also: