This bears no resemblance to the DOS LBR format. The resulting archive is typically optimized for convenient rendering to (re-)writable CD or DVD media.Ī library format used primarily on the Commodore 64 and 128 lines of computers. However, it can be used to archive the contents of other storage media, selected partitions, folders, and/or files. LQRĪn archive format originally used mainly for archiving and distribution of the exact, nearly-exact, or custom-modified contents of an optical storage medium such as a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. LBR archives that were compressed with SQ ended with the extension. LBR archives typically contained files processed by SQ, or the archive itself was compressed with SQ. cpio is also used with initramfs.Ī self-extracting archive that uses the Bourne shell (sh).Ī system for storing multiple files. Newer RPM systems also support other archives, as cpio is becoming obsolete. RPM files consist of metadata concatenated with (usually) a cpio archive. The traditional archive format on Unix-like systems, now used mainly for the creation of static libraries. 5.2 Software packaging and distributionĪrchiving only File extension(s).
