ARC File Archiver CPM/Port archive
File type: Archive and compressed file
Files with ark extension can be most often found as special archive files created by the CPM/Port of ARC File Archiver.
Found 2 different file type records with the same ark filename suffix.
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: August 9, 2022
File extension ark is related to ARC, a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates (SEA). It was very popular during the early days of networked BBS.
The file format and the program were both called ARC.
The ARC program essentially made obsolete the use of combinations of the SQ program to compress files and the LU program to create .LBR archives by combining the functions of both compression and archiving into a single program.
ARC compresses multiple files into one - but unlike ZIP, not entire directory trees. The arc format was the subject of quite a bit of controversy in the 1980s - an important event in the open source debate.
MIME types:
application/x-cpmdecode
Use FreeArc to open and decompress .ark files.
There is no way how to transfrom .ark files to other formats.
FreeArc (Microsoft Windows)
PowerDesk Pro (Microsoft Windows)
FreeArc (Microsoft Windows)
FreeArc (Microsoft Windows)
PowerDesk Pro (Microsoft Windows)
FreeArc (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: March 8, 2017
The ark file extension is associated with the OpenBook, a software for Microsoft Windows operating system, which allows users to converts printed documents to electronic formats.
The ark file contains documents from OpenBook program.
Use OpenBook to work with *.ark files.
OpenBook may be able to export *.ark files to other formats.
OpenBook (Microsoft Windows)
OpenBook (Microsoft Windows)
OpenBook (Microsoft Windows)
OpenBook (Microsoft Windows)
OpenBook (Microsoft Windows)
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