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unarc en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + ARC.

Meanings

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

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