What is a .mar file and how to use it?

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What is a .mar file and how to use it?

Category: File manipulation , File types

Composed by: that-ben

On: 2023-01-13 12:56:59

Updated by: that-ben

On: 2023-01-30 13:48:12

What is a .mar file?

A .mar file is a cross between an UNIX and a MacBinary archive. Although a small group of individuals use it, there is no real point in using this format on Mac, except to make your archives as unlikely to be expanded by n00bs as possible. You see, even though I'm sure that some genius, somewhere, will tell you that it's widely supported, it's hard to argue against the fact that even The Unarchiver and Stuffit Expander, the two most invaluable, "expand everything" archive expansion tools used through at least 30 years of Macintosh history, don't even know what the F .mar files are. Windows will automatically transform any file that you rename with a .mar suffix to some sort of Microsoft Office Access Report Shortcut and Google will only tell you that .mar files are Mozilla's proprietary file format, just to mislead as many users as possible. Truly an enjoyable, easy to use, archive format, so widespread and supported that only real geniuses use it.