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'''PA''', also called "Advanced Codec Pack", is a compressed archive format associated with ''PowerArchiver'', a commercial archiving application developed by ConeXware.

PowerArchiver was first released around 1999. It supports many formats. PA format was introduced in PowerArchiver 2017.

== Identification ==
At least some PA files start with ASCII "{{magic|PaFiLe}}".

== See also ==
* [[PAE]]
* [[PAE2]]

== Software ==
* PowerArchiver
** [https://www.powerarchiver.com/ Official website]
** Some versions of PowerArchiver may be found in the [https://www.sac.sk/files.php?d=7 SAC archive].

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia: PowerArchiver]]