unarc

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ ARC.

Verb

unarc (third-person singular simple present unarcs, present participle unarcing, simple past and past participle unarced)

1. (computing, transitive) To extract (a file) from a compressed archive in ARC (file format).
   • 1988, Forth Dimensions, volume 10, page 18:

     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, Don Berliner, Managing Your Hard Disk, page 496:

     The individual files compressed within the archive file SUPPLIER on drive B are unarced and placed in the subdirectory […]

   • 1991, InfoWorld, volume 13, numbers 9-17, page 390:

     Windows setup entails unarcing files into system subdirectory […]

   • 1993, Microtimes, volume 10, page 210:

     MegaD also provides an easy method for arcing or unarcing files using various compression programs.

   • 2005, Kirk St. Amant, Pavel Zemliansky, Internet-based Workplace Communications:

     Early in the semester, students also had to learn how to ftp files from a remote site and unarc them using PKXARC.

Anagrams

• Craun, NCAUR