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asar support

idleberg
2016-07-28
2022-02-23
  • idleberg

    idleberg - 2016-07-28

    With the asar becoming popular among Electron/Node developers, would you consider adding support to 7-zip?

     
  • Dmitriy

    Dmitriy - 2016-11-11

    Hi. I would like 7-zip to have that archive format support too.

     
  • enter name here

    enter name here - 2016-11-12

    Omg those Node kiddies are going crazy again :/
    Isn't any existing archive format suitable enough?...

    I'd prefer LZ4 support in 7-zip. Extremely fast compression for extreme archive sizes.

     
    • Dmitriy

      Dmitriy - 2016-11-13

      Personally I'm not a node developer and can't talk about the necessity and usefulness of that new archive format. Anyway, it is already in use. I was looking through the resources of some commercial software recently and have encountered that asar archive. I haven't managed to find an archiver capable of opening it. So I just need a tool to unpack it.

       
  • Dec

    Dec - 2016-11-26

    I want to try to create a plugin for 7Zip which will support this format. Where can I download a sample of REAL asar file?

     
  • Caleb Begly

    Caleb Begly - 2017-02-18

    Here is the asar project. You should be able to work it out from there. https://github.com/electron/asar

     
  • Dec

    Dec - 2017-11-21

    I created asar plugin:

    Plugin allows you to open, extract, modify and create asar archives. Download link http://www.tc4shell.com/en/7zip/asar/

    Plugin has beta status so USE IT ON YOUR OWN RISK! Always create copy of asar files before modification.

     
  • Dmitriy

    Dmitriy - 2017-11-24

    how to install the plugin?

     
    • Dec

      Dec - 2017-11-24

      Please read Installation section of description of my other plugin - http://www.tc4shell.com/en/7zip/edecoder/ The principle is the same.

       
  • Dmitriy

    Dmitriy - 2017-11-24

    Created a subfolder of "Formats" and copied the Asar.32.dill and Asar.32.dll files. app.asar does not open

     
    • Dec

      Dec - 2017-11-24

      7z bitness? Do you see asar format in compress dialog? Do you see any error message when you try to open your asar file? Can I test your asar file? Could you upload it to any hosting or send me it to support @ tc4shell.com?

       
  • Dmitriy

    Dmitriy - 2017-11-25

    А на русском языке можно задавать вопросы ?

     
  • Dec

    Dec - 2017-11-25

    Можно. Ваш файл закодирован простым xor 0x67.

     
  • Dmitriy

    Dmitriy - 2017-11-25

    Значит файл, я так понимаю, не открыть

     
  • Bob Riddle

    Bob Riddle - 2022-02-23

    Count me as plus one for adding .ASAR support. I'm finding some of my tech magazine archives are arriving as .asar files. I have to know which one contains a topic to open the "right" one from their UI's index. I want to extract the individual magazines, convert them to .PDF's, and index them so I don't spend lots of time in trial-and-error extraction through their UI.

    Thanks!

    (Love 7-Zip. Your max-compression algorithm is awesome!).

     

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