Open A06 file

The most common choise: Split Multi-volume ARJ compressed file archive (part 8)

How to open Split Multi-volume ARJ compressed file archive (part 8) .a06 files

a06 file icon Have you had trouble opening the a06 file on your computer? What are a06 files? We explain what they are and recommend software that we know will open them.

What is a06 file?

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

Split Multi-volume ARJ compressed file archive (part 8) 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.

 

Suggested software to open a06 file

ARJ

Once very popular file archiver for MS-DOS

ARJ32

A command line version of ARJ archiver

There are other A06 filename extensions with the same .a06 suffix

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 computer file name, so for example document-name.pdf has file extension „pdf“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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