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 '''RK''' format is a family of proprietary compressed archive formats developed by Malcolm Taylor and RK Software (later M Software). It is the native format of the software named ''RK'' (or ''RK high performance archiver'', or ''RK Archiver''), and of the later ''WinRK''. It is a continuation of the family of formats used by [[RKIVE]], the predecessor of RK Archiver.
-WinRK is a full-featured archiving application that supports several standard formats, as well as its native RK format. The RK format version used by WinRK is sometimes called "'''WinRK''' archive".
+WinRK is a full-featured archiving application that supports several standard formats, as well as its native RK format. The RK format version used by WinRK is sometimes called '''WinRK archive''' (e.g. by WinRK v1.1.3, to distinguish it from RK v1.04.1 format).
 See also:
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 * RKIVE 1.2-1.4
 * RKIVE 1.92beta1 (Don't know if there are any other 1.9x versions.)
-* RK Archiver 1.4.1alpha (There are earlier versions of RK; don't know what format they use.)
+* RK Archiver 1.4.1alpha (There are earlier versions of RK Archiver; don't know what format they use.)
 * WinRK (All versions? At least v1.1.3 to v3.1.2.)
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 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20041216091937/http://rksoft.virtualave.net/ RK Software] (last Wayback Machine capture, 2004-12-16)
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310155336/http://www.msoftware.biz/ M Software website (2016 archive)]
-* See [{{SACFTPURL|pack|winrk312.exe}} winrk312.exe] ([[NSIS]] format) → WinRK.chm §1.1.1 "Features", for a list of RK format features.
+* For a list of RK format features, see [{{SACFTPURL|pack|winrk312.exe}} winrk312.exe] ([[NSIS]] format) → WinRK.chm, §1.1.1 "Features".

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 |released=≤2000 (RK), 2004 (WinRK)
 }}
-'''RK''' format is a family of proprietary compressed archive formats developed by RK Software (later M Software). It is the native format of the software named ''RK'' (or ''RK high performance archiver'', or ''RK Archiver''), and of the later '''WinRK''' software. It is a continuation of the family of formats used by [[RKIVE]], the predecessor of RK Archiver.
+'''RK''' format is a family of proprietary compressed archive formats developed by Malcolm Taylor and RK Software (later M Software). It is the native format of the software named ''RK'' (or ''RK high performance archiver'', or ''RK Archiver''), and of the later ''WinRK''. It is a continuation of the family of formats used by [[RKIVE]], the predecessor of RK Archiver.
-WinRK is a full-featured archiving application that supports several standard formats, as well as its native RK format. The format version used by WinRK is sometimes called "WinRK archive".
+WinRK is a full-featured archiving application that supports several standard formats, as well as its native RK format. The RK format version used by WinRK is sometimes called "'''WinRK''' archive".
 See also:
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 RK/WinRK archives ''end'' with a 2-byte signature: ASCII "{{magic|RK}}". The three bytes preceding this signature contain version information, though for WinRK it's really just dummy information. The major version number is the low 6 bits of the 5th byte from the end of the file. It is 1 for RK Archiver, 2 for WinRK.
-WinRK archives are observed to start with these 13 bytes: {{magic|aa 04 00 00 00 00 ad bb da 04 00 00 00}}. They always end with {{magic|02 00 00 'R' 'K'}}.
+WinRK archives are observed to start with these 13 bytes: {{magic|aa 04 00 00 00 00 ad bb da 04 00 00 00}}. They end with {{magic|02 00 00 'R' 'K'}}.
-For RK Archiver format, there is no header at the beginning of the file. The v1.4.1alpha version info bytes are {{magic|0x81 0x04 0x01}}. But there are earlier versions of RK Archiver which, even assuming they use this format variant, would have different version numbers.
+RK Archiver format has no header at the beginning of the file. The v1.4.1alpha version info bytes are {{magic|0x81 0x04 0x01}}. But there are earlier versions of RK Archiver which, even assuming they use this format variant, would have different version numbers.
 == Software ==

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 * WinRK (All versions? At least v1.1.3 to v3.1.2.)
-Even within these classes, different versions are not necessarily compatible.
+Even within one of these classes, different versions are not necessarily compatible.
 == Identification ==
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 * [{{SACFTPURL|pack|winrk312.exe}} WinRK v3.1.2 (32-bit)] (Windows GUI)
 * [{{SACFTPURL|pack|wrk31264.exe}} WinRK v3.1.2 (64-bit)] (Windows GUI)
-* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050207080125/http://rksoft.virtualave.net/downloads.html RK Software downloads page] (from archive.org)
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050207080125/http://rksoft.virtualave.net/downloads.html RK Software downloads page] (from archive.org)
-* [http://www.msoftware.biz/products/winrk WinRK]
 == Links ==
-* [http://web.archive.org/web/20041216091937/http://rksoft.virtualave.net/ RK Software] (last Wayback Machine capture, 2004-12-16)
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041216091937/http://rksoft.virtualave.net/ RK Software] (last Wayback Machine capture, 2004-12-16)
-* [http://www.msoftware.biz/ M Software]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310155336/http://www.msoftware.biz/ M Software website (2016 archive)]
-** [http://www.msoftware.biz/products/winrk#tabs-tabset-3 RK Format]
+* See [{{SACFTPURL|pack|winrk312.exe}} winrk312.exe] ([[NSIS]] format) → WinRK.chm §1.1.1 "Features", for a list of RK format features.

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 |released=≤2000 (RK), 2004 (WinRK)
 }}
-'''RK''' is a proprietary compressed archive format developed by RK Software (later M Software). It is the native format of RK Archiver. This article also covers the successor format and software, '''WinRK'''. The term "RK format" generally encompasses all formats that use the '''.rk''' file extension, including WinRK format, though this article may use it to refer specifically to the RK Archiver format.
+'''RK''' format is a family of proprietary compressed archive formats developed by RK Software (later M Software). It is the native format of the software named ''RK'' (or ''RK high performance archiver'', or ''RK Archiver''), and of the later '''WinRK''' software. It is a continuation of the family of formats used by [[RKIVE]], the predecessor of RK Archiver.
-RK is the successor of [[RKIVE]] (.rkv).
+WinRK is a full-featured archiving application that supports several standard formats, as well as its native RK format. The format version used by WinRK is sometimes called "WinRK archive".
-See also these related formats:
+See also:
-* [[RK Audio]]
+* [[RKIVE]] (.rkv)
-* [[RK Image]]
+* [[RK Audio]] (.rka)
 * [[RKUC]]
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 * RKIVE 1.2-1.4
 * RKIVE 1.92beta1 (Don't know if there are any other 1.9x versions.)
-* RK 1.4.1alpha (There are earlier versions of RK; don't know what format they use.)
+* RK Archiver 1.4.1alpha (There are earlier versions of RK; don't know what format they use.)
 * WinRK (All versions? At least v1.1.3 to v3.1.2.)
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 (This assumes the format is not RKIVE v1.92beta1 -- read [[RKIVE#Identification]] first.)
-RK/WinRK archives ''end'' with a 2-byte signature: ASCII "{{magic|RK}}". The three bytes preceding this signature contain version information, though for WinRK it's really just dummy information. The major version number is the low 6 bits of the 5th byte from the end of the file. It is 1 for RK, 2 for WinRK.
+RK/WinRK archives ''end'' with a 2-byte signature: ASCII "{{magic|RK}}". The three bytes preceding this signature contain version information, though for WinRK it's really just dummy information. The major version number is the low 6 bits of the 5th byte from the end of the file. It is 1 for RK Archiver, 2 for WinRK.
 WinRK archives are observed to start with these 13 bytes: {{magic|aa 04 00 00 00 00 ad bb da 04 00 00 00}}. They always end with {{magic|02 00 00 'R' 'K'}}.
-For RK format, there is no header at the beginning of the file. The v1.4.1alpha version info bytes are {{magic|0x81 0x04 0x01}}. But there are earlier versions of RK which, even assuming they use this format variant, would have different version numbers.
+For RK Archiver format, there is no header at the beginning of the file. The v1.4.1alpha version info bytes are {{magic|0x81 0x04 0x01}}. But there are earlier versions of RK Archiver which, even assuming they use this format variant, would have different version numbers.
 == Software ==

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 == Disambiguation ==
-This has no connection to a [http://www.winrk.co.uk/ different WinRK], which appears to be a UK-based database of ringers... of bells, probably?
+This has no connection to a [http://www.winrk.co.uk/ different WinRK], which appears to be a UK-based database used for record-keeping by bell-ringers.
 == Discussion ==