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===Features=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: auto; text-align: center; font-size: smaller; table-layout: fixed;" |- ! Archive format ! Built-in compression ! Self-extracting ! Directory structure ! [[POSIX attributes]] ! [[Access Control List|ACL]]s | [[Alternate data streams]] |- ! [[cpio]] | {{no}}{{efn|name=c1| Compression is not a built-in feature of the formats, however, the resulting archive can be compressed with any algorithm of choice. Several implementations include functionality to do this automatically}}{{efn|name=c1}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[Tar (file format)|tar]] | {{no}}{{efn|name=c1}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{some}} | {{partial|(in Solaris implementation)}} |- ! [[DAR (Disk Archiver)|dar]] | {{yes}}{{efn|name=c3| Per-file compression with [[gzip]], [[bzip2]], [[lzo]], [[XZ Utils|xz]], [[lzma]] (as opposed to compressing the whole archive). An individual can choose not to compress already compressed filenames based on their suffix as well.}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |- ! [[ar (Unix)|ar]] | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[Pax (command)|pax]] | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[dump (Unix)|dump]] | {{no}}{{efn|name=c1}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[Shar (file format)|shar]] | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} |- ! makeself | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[zip (file format)|zip]] | {{yes}} | {{yes}}{{efn|name=c2| Most implementations can optionally produce a self-extracting executable}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[RAR (file format)|rar]] | {{yes}} | {{yes}}{{efn|name=c2}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} | {{yes}} |- ! [[ACE (compression file format)|ace]] | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[arj]] | {{yes}} | {{yes}}{{efn|name=c2}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[zoo (file format)|zoo]] | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[ISO 9660]] (CD-ROM) | {{no}}{{efn|name=c1}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{maybe|(with [[Rock Ridge]] extension)}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[cabinet (file format)|cab]] | {{yes}} | {{yes}}{{efn|name=c2}} | {{dunno}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[RPM Package Manager|rpm]] | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[Deb (file format)|deb]] | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! [[7z (file format)|7z]] | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! Archive format ! Built-in compression ! Self-extracting ! Directory Structure ! [[POSIX attributes]] ! [[Access Control List|ACL]]s | [[Alternate data streams]] |}
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