Open a06 file

a06 file icon Did your computer fail to open a06 file? We explain what a06 files are and recommend software that we know can open your a06 files.

What is a06 file?

Files with a06 extension are used for ARJ software. It is an archive file format.

a06 file description

The a06 file extension is associated with ARJ. Its one part of a multi-volume compressed ARJ archive.

ARJ is the native format of ARJ archiver. ARJ is a file archiver that compresses files into a disk space saving archive. It is fast, reliable, and has a rich set of features which include Windows 9x, Millenium long filename support, file version management, data damage protection, ANSI escape sequence display handler, configurable command options, multiple volume archives (archives that span diskettes) and much more.

Some ARJ files can be parts of a multi-volume sequences. In ARJ you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes.

ARJ archiver does use the following sequence:

  • .arj for first volume
  • .a00, a01, a02 .... etc. for any additional volumes


In order to unpack the multi-volume ARJ archive, you need to place ALL of the split parts in the same directory and start extraction of the first volume (.arj). The program will automatically use all of the parts to extract the content of the archive.

 

Software that will open a06 file

ARJ

Once very popular file archiver for MS-DOS

ARJ32

A command line version of ARJ archiver

Other a06 file extensions

a06 - Split Multi-volume ALZip compressed file archive (part 8)

An a06 file extension is related to the ALZip, a compression tool. An a06 file stores part of multi-volume compressed archive.

What file extension actually is?

Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the file name, so for example filename.mp3 has file extension „mp3“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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