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[[3DGE]] can read content from the following archive formats:
* [[WAD]]: Doom's native format; it is sequential and does not offer compression
* [[GRP]]: [[Build]]'s native format
* [[SIN]]: [[SiN]]'s native format, based on Quake's QPAK format.
* HOG/MVL: [[Descent]]'s various formats
* RFF: [[Blood]]'s native format
* [[PAK]]: Quake's native format (this is used for the [[edge2.pak]] startup archive.
* [[ZIP]]/PK3: Contrarily to most implementations, 3DGE fully implements the ZIP standard and is able to open zipped archives that many utilities do not
* 7z/PK7: One of the best all-around compressed archive format
* Directory: Technically not an archive format, nevertheless 3DGE is able to load the entire content of a directory
* Single file: Also technically not an archive format, nevertheless a single lump can be loaded
* Embedded wad: a .wad file contained within a non-wad archive will be recursively loaded

3DGE, as of 2.1.0-Test3, uses [[PhysicsFS]] for most of its file abstraction; the port was previously completely based on [[EDGE]] author [[Andrew Apted]]'s [[OBLIGE]]'s archive implementation, which is still seen in the [[EPI]] utility code.

== See also ==
* [[Using ZIPs as WAD replacement]]
[[Category:Archive formats|*]][[Category:Data formats]]

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 [[3DGE]] can read content from the following archive formats:
-* [[WAD]]: Doom's native format; it is sequential and does not offer compression
+* [[WAD]]: Doom's native format; it is sequential and ''does not offer compression''
 * [[GRP]]: [[Build]]'s native format
-* [[SIN]]: [[SiN]]'s native format, based on Quake's QPAK format.
+* [[SIN]]: [[SiN]]'s native format, based on Quake's QPAK format. ''Does not offer compression, but preserves directory structure.''
 * HOG/MVL: [[Descent]]'s various formats
 * RFF: [[Blood]]'s native format
-* [[PAK]]: Quake's native format (this is used for the [[edge2.pak]] startup archive.
+* [[PAK]]: Quake's native format (this is used for the [[edge2.pak]] startup archive. ''Does not offer compression, but preserves directory structure.''
 * [[ZIP]]/[[PK3]]: Contrarily to most implementations, 3DGE fully implements the ZIP standard and is able to open zipped archives that many utilities do not
 * [[7z]]/[[PK7]]: One of the best all-around compressed archive format

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 * [[PAK]]: Quake's native format (this is used for the [[edge2.pak]] startup archive.
 * [[ZIP]]/[[PK3]]: Contrarily to most implementations, 3DGE fully implements the ZIP standard and is able to open zipped archives that many utilities do not
-* 7z/PK7: One of the best all-around compressed archive format
+* [[7z]]/[[PK7]]: One of the best all-around compressed archive format
 * Directory: Technically not an archive format, nevertheless 3DGE is able to load the entire content of a directory
 * Single file: Also technically not an archive format, nevertheless a single lump can be loaded