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ARJ is a tool for creating compressed file archives. It was invented by Robert K. Jung. ARJ stands for Archived by Robert Jung. It is no longer in wide use. In computer science and information theory, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than an unencoded representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes. ...


ARJ was one of two mainstream archivers during early and mid-90s. PKZIP was the other mainstream archiver. ARJ's compression is somewhat better to that of PKZIP 1.02, but ARJ is considerably slower than PKZIP (or it could be said that PKZIP is considerably faster, because PKZIP was one of the fastest archivers in its time). Parts of ARJ were covered by U.S. Patent 5,140,321 . It was available for license under more friendly terms than PKZIP. PKZIP is an archiving tool originally written by the late Phil Katz, and marketed by his company PKWARE, Inc. ...


Generally ARJ was less popular than PKZIP, but ARJ did enjoy popularity during the BBS era. This was largely due to ARJ's creation and handling of multi-volume archives (archives which are split into smaller files which are then suitable for dial-up transfers and floppy distribution) being much simpler and more inituitive than PKZIP's. Ward Christensen and the computer that ran the first public Bulletin Board System, CBBS from BBS: The Documentary “BBS” redirects here. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ...


ARJ also allowed the user to alter the level of an archive's compression, making it popular on small packet mail networks such as WWIVNet and HOGnet, who used lower compression settings to take advantage of modem-based compression (such as MNP or v.42bis) in order to reduce the long distance bills which invariably came with membership in such networks. WWIVnet was a BBS network for WWIV-based BBSes. ... The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) is a commonwealth in political union with the United States of America at a strategic location in the West Pacific Ocean. ... V.42bis is an adaptive data compression standard in common use nowadays. ...


Since those days, ARJ has lost much of its market share to other formats; the lack of a graphical interface has also contributed to its virtual disappearance from the desktop world.


Due to its well-designed archive splitting feature, some people who are used to ARJ still use it to do a regular backup of files to smaller-size mediums like floppy disks. It should be noted that WinRAR (and other RAR archivers) also has very similarly designed archive splitting, but WinRAR became popular much later, in first years of 21st century. An interesting feature of ARJ – which seems to be missing from all the other popular archivers (March 2006) – is the ability to add, delete and/or modify files in a multi-volume archive. WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility by Eugene Roshal. ... REDIRECT RAR (file format) ...


See also

JAR is a tool for creating compressed file archives. ... This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Comparison of file archivers. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. ...

External links

  • ARJ Software Inc.
  • Open Source version of the ARJ archiver
  • List of ARJ resources
  • PicoZip is a Shareware product that supports ARJ format (Windows platform only)

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