By Operating System
Unix operating systems use the tar file format, ar, and shar to concatenate files. These archive formats can then be compressed into gzip format.
On Windows platforms, the most widely-used archive format is ZIP; other formats are CAB, RAR, and ACE. Windows Installer is a high-level archive format for distribution of software.
On Amiga computers the standard archive format is LHA.
On Apple Macintosh computers ZIP is now natively used in Mac OS X 10.3+, though StuffIt was the most common in previous versions.
Linux often uses TAR, gz, and RPM package manager, a package management system for distribution of software.
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