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Alexandra Grazhevskaja • Edited

What I`ve found is:
"Electron (formely known as Atom Shell) uses it’s own archive format to compress files into a single file. The format is somewhat similar to TAR files."
"Asar is a simple extensive archive format, it works like .TAR that concatenates all files together without compression, while having random access support."

There is Aspose.ZIP API, it supports converting to .TAR, .GZIP, .BZ2, but there is no support for .ASAR yet.

Very interesting to know your experience with .ASAR format, why and in which scenarios you had to use it, etc.

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Tobias SN

I’ve just heard of it when reading about Electron, and since it’s not really used elsewhere I had doubts that Aspose supported it.