unarc

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ ARC.

Verb

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unarc (third-person singular simple present unarcs, present participle unarcing, simple past and past participle unarced)

  1. (computing, transitive) To extract (a file) from a compressed archive in ARC (file format).
    • 1988, Forth Dimensions, volume 10, page 18:
      I unarced it with UNARC.F83, a good example of a useful application that runs using only standard words (and F83 in particular). The unarced file is VIDEO.BLK, which looks similar to the VIDEO.BLK file from VIDEOF83.
    • 1988, Don Berliner, Managing Your Hard Disk, page 496:
      The individual files compressed within the archive file SUPPLIER on drive B are unarced and placed in the subdirectory []
    • 1991, InfoWorld, volume 13, numbers 9-17, page 390:
      Windows setup entails unarcing files into system subdirectory []
    • 1993, Microtimes, volume 10, page 210:
      MegaD also provides an easy method for arcing or unarcing files using various compression programs.
    • 2005, Kirk St. Amant, Pavel Zemliansky, Internet-based Workplace Communications:
      Early in the semester, students also had to learn how to ftp files from a remote site and unarc them using PKXARC.

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