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Linux/Unix command library
File type: System file
Files with ar extension are also related to ar archiving program on Unix platform.
Found 3 different file type records with the same ar filename suffix.
File type category:
System file
Date updated: December 29, 2016
The ar file extension is related to ar, a a Unix utility that maintains groups of files as a single archive file.
The GNU ar program creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to retrieve the original individual files.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving ar files:
Linux/Unix
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: July 21, 2018
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The ar file extension probably used in Java Runtime Environment 1.3, a runtime environment for programs written in JAVA programming language, available for various platforms.
The ar file contains JAVA library.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving ar files:
Multiplatform
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: July 19, 2025
File extension ar is also related to Midtown Madness computer game and used for one of the default file type.
Many areas of the game are open to modification and thus a modding community usually produces a lot of addons. These additions can easily be added to the game, as they are compressed in the zip file format but have their file extension changed to AR.
You can load these files to the game to take advantage of the add-on. You can also extract the content with any ZIP archiver.
Add-ons are not meant to be converted to anything else, but you can decompress them like any other ZIP file and possibly convert the content.
Software applications that can open ar files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that extract ar files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving ar files:
Microsoft Windows
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