File Archive Tools
- unp (Perl script which acts as a simple front-end for extracting many types of archive files)
- Bloat (Perl script which acts as a simple front-end for extracting many types of archive files) (cvs)
- Tar (Tool to create, add, view and extract files of a '.tar' archive file) (manual) (Tardy Tool to alter certain characteristics of files after they have been packed into a "tar" archive files)
- Gzip (Compression tool designed to be a replacement for the compress tool)
- Bzip (Faster and better compression tool than Gzip, but with similar command-line flags)
- Zlib (Portable, lossless data compression library based on a "LZ77" compression algorithm variant called "deflation". License: Zlib license) (ml)
- zziplib (Library for unpacking and creating Zip files) (cvs) (ml)
- infozip (Library for unpacking and creating Zip archive files. License: BSD-style with a 'may not be sold for profit' clause)
- PAQ (Collection of compression tools)
- unrarlib (Library for unpacking RAR files created with the non-free WinRAR program)
- 7-Zip (M$ w32 tool for unpacking and creating a variety of archive file formats: 7z, zip, cab, rar, arj, gzip, bzip2, tar, cpio, rpm and deb)
- LAR ("Library Archiver". Tool for unpacking and creating CP/M LBR (LiBRary) archive files. License: none, its public domain)