ARC

archive file format used on bulletin board systems
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ARC

Summary

ARC is a file format[1]. ARC draws 67 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #74 of 297).[2]

Key Facts

  • ARC's instance of is recorded as file format[3].
  • ARC's instance of is recorded as digital container format[4].
  • ARC's developer is recorded as System Enhancement Associates[5].
  • +1985-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of ARC[6].
  • ARC's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/057d9q[7].
  • ARC's media type is recorded as application/x-arc[8].
  • ARC's file extension is recorded as arc[9].
  • ARC's file extension is recorded as ark[10].
  • ARC's file extension is recorded as sue[11].
  • ARC's replaced by is recorded as ZIP[12].
  • ARC's different from is recorded as Internet Archive ARC[13].
  • ARC's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as ARC_(compression_format)[14].
  • ARC's Uniform Type Identifier is recorded as public.archive.arc[15].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format[3] and digital container format[4].

History and Context

+1985-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of ARC[6].

Why It Matters

ARC draws 67 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #74 of 297).[2] ARC has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] ARC is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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