Command-line tool

ancient

brew/ancient

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Decompression routines for ancient formats

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install ancient

Linux

brew install ancient

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