MAR Utility

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File Format
Name MAR Utility
Ontology
Extension(s) .mar, .mac
PRONOM fmt/1483
Type Code MARf
Released 2011

A MAR archive is a utility created by PCE developer Hampa Hug.[1] The purpose is to combine features of MacBinary and TAR, encapsulating the Resource Fork, Data Fork, and Finder data of a classic Macintosh file.

Contents

File Information

MAR files always contain exactly one item, either a single file or a folder and its contents (including subfolders). By convention archives that contain a file get the extension .MAC (this is basically equivalent to a MacBinary file) and archives that contain a folder get the extension .MAR. It is the same file format, though.[2]

Format Information

MAR file will begin with the hex values 4D415280.

Software

References

  1. https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/mar-archive
  2. https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/mar-archive#comment-83867
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