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What makes a phar a phar and not a tar or a zip?
Table of Contents
Ingredients of all Phar archives, independent of file format
Phar file stub
Head-to-head comparison of Phar, Tar and Zip
Tar-based phars
Zip-based phars
Phar File Format
Global Phar bitmapped flags
Phar manifest file entry definition
Phar Signature format
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