ACE (file format)
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In computing, ACE is a proprietary data compression archive file format developed by e-merge GmbH. ACE offers superior compression compared to the ZIP file format, at the cost of a lower compression speed.
The file extension is .ace. The MIME-Type is application/x-ace-compressed.
WinAce, maintained by e-merge GmbH, is used to decompress and manipulate ACE files under Microsoft Windows. There are also older versions of a program called "unace", which are licensed under the GPL but cannot extract ACE archives newer than version 2.0. Besides that, there are free decompression programs for many platforms (such as Mac OS X and Linux), but they aren't free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation.
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