Survey: files with arbitrary contents

Format	Compression	Annotations
7z	[] Deflate [] Deflate64™ LZMA PPMd BZIP2	open format
ACE
ACR		proprietary format of Software Enhancement Associates (SEA), no practical importance
ARJ
BZIP2	[] Burrows-Wheeler-Transformation (BWT) [] Huffman Coding	open format, format for single files or data transfer [] BZIP2
GZIP	[] Deflate	open format, format for single files or data transfer (HTTP) [] GZIP
RAR		proprietary format, only decoding algorithm is published mainly used by WinRAR
SIT		standard format for MacOS systems, native format of the application STuffIt
TAR	no compression	commonly used together with GZIP, file collection format preparing files for further use
UC2
ZIP	[] Deflate [] Deflate64™ Implode Shrunk Reduce	most common format supported by a large number of applications [] ZIP

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