zarf archive format

by Charles Iliya Krempeaux

The zarf format is an archive format and container format that can combine multiple files into a single aggregate file.

The zarf format is similar to other archive formats, such as the ar format, the cpio format, the shar format, the tar format, and the WARC format.

The zarf format is made to be easy to understand and implement for programmers.

The name “zarf” has 2 meanings:

• it is an acronym “Zarf ARchive Format”, and
• it also happens to be the Persian word for ‘container’.