ARS

File Format
Name	ARS
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving ARS
Released	≤1999

ARS is a DOS utility that creates self-extracting compressed archives in EXE format. It was developed by Stepanyuk V. Oleg (maybe also written "Oleg Stepanyuk").

Identification

[Only v2.1.1 has been evaluated.]

The first 11806 bytes are probably always the same. There is an apparent signature at the start of the "overlay" segment (refer to MS-DOS EXE#Special file positions) at offset 11792: byte 0x0d, followed by ASCII "(C) STEPANYUK". (Caution: The few bytes after this string might be garbage.)

Software

• ARS v2.1.1 (also uses version number "2.1")

Links

• Oddin Software website archives - Apparently associated with the author, though no mention of ARS.