above explanation for tar. B1 Free Archiver for Android and B1 Online Archiver support ARJ format. libarchive has issues reading RAR formats, some partial reads are unsupported hence broken for generic usage. Writing Information about what archive formats the archivers can write and create. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the archiver or extensions that provide such functionality. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are compression formats rather than archive formats. Notes: Tar implementations call the external programs gzip and bzip2, 7z, xz, ... to perform compression; these external programs usually come with systems that contain tar. Requires rar.exe from WinRAR. Requires external program(if you are using WinZip 11.1 or earlier). More info Requires Ace32.exe from WinAce. The Extractor and XAD are not included in this list because they only expand archives. ALZip can also write to the following formats: BH, JAR, and LZH Updating archives is not supported. Requires external program. Stuffit supported file formats Ark is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Ark; writing in .rar format requires a commercial program. Xarchiver is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Xarchiver; writing in .rar format requires a commercial program. Archive Manager (previously known as "File Roller") is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Archive Manager. writing in .rar format requires a commercial program. If there are more than one, files must be grouped in a .tar before being compressed. supports the formats as stream compression of other archive format and can create compressed format like tar.bz2 or iso.xz but cannot create an archive in these formats it is possible to open war and jar files to extract e add/replace file; files war and jar are still valid after that it require console rar.exe, and the path to it -- specified in Options . it can be taken from WinRAR software . PowerArchiever also doesn't support separate definition of the Dictionary Size and Compression Method . Uncommon archive format support PeaZip has full support for Brotli, Zstandard, various LPAQ and PAQ formats, QUAD / BALZ / BCM (highly efficient ROLZ based compressors), FreeArc format, and for its