This is a port of SEA arc from MS-DOS. It creates, modifies, and extracts from .arc files using the old Crunch, Squash, and Squeeze compression methods. It runs on most Unix/POSIX systems as well as mainframes and other microcomputers.
| Tags | Archiving Compression |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Freeware Shareware GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux OS Independent |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Some minor cleanup to silence warnings from gcc, and a more complete fix for the insecure temporary file creation. You can ignore the linker warnings about mktemp; all of its uses have been secured.


Release Notes: arc is now free software. A few bugfixes were also made.


Release Notes: Bugfixes.
Recent comments
20 Mar 2004 22:31
Now on SourceForge
Hi, I'm the original author of this package. It now has a home on sourceforge:
It hasn't seen many updates since about 1999, but the CVS tree on sourceforge is up to date and has a few fixes that this release doesn't have...
21 Apr 2002 13:26
Free unpacker
A free unpacking tool for these archives is nomarch (/projects/nomarch/).
Flexibly generates password candidates using OS pseudo-random sources.