xar: xar (eXtensible ARchiver) xar: xar: XAR provides an easily extensible archive format. An XML table of xar: contents, stored at the beginning of the archive, allows for random xar: access to the archived files. XAR can handle files of arbitrarily xar: large sizes, is able to encode individual files in the archive xar: independently, can store checksums for individual files in both xar: compressed and uncompressed form, can query the rich metadata of xar: the table of contents. xar: xar: Homepage: https://mackyle.github.io/xar/