| File Extension | CPIO |
|---|---|
| Category | Archive File |
| Technical Details | CPIO files are stored to disk as binary files. Meta information is also stored in binary as per the original specification. There have been revisions of the format however that used ASCII character set representation to store Meta information. The format has cross compatibility with the TAR archiving format (allowing you to open TAR archives) and can even recognize different byte-order arrangement of different archiving formats. In the POSIX.1-1988 standard the cpio format has a file limitation of 8 GB. |
| Associated Programs | GNU cpio PeaZip Ditto Apple Archive Utility |
FreeFileConvert supports converting CPIO files into 9 different formats. Select your desired conversion from the table below to get started. All conversions are performed online and require no software installation.
| Convert from CPIO | Conversion | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | CPIO JAR Java Archive File | — |
| 1 | CPIO RAR WinRAR Compressed Archive | — |
| 2 | CPIO T7Z 7Zip Compressed Tar File | — |
| 3 | CPIO TAR Consolidated Unix File Archive | — |
| 4 | CPIO TBZ Deprecated Bzip Compressed Tar Archive | — |
| 5 | CPIO TBZ2 Tar BZip 2 Compressed File | — |
| 6 | CPIO TGZ Gzipped Tar File | — |
| 7 | CPIO TXZ XZ Compressed Tar File | — |
| 8 | CPIO ZIP Recommended Stable Zipped File |