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Unarc vs Narc - What's the difference?

unarc | narc |

As verbs the difference between unarc and narc

is that unarc is (computing|transitive) to extract (a file) from a compressed archive in while narc is (slang) or narc can be (slang) to suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (eg while scuba diving).

As a noun narc is

(slang) a narcotics squad police officer or narc can be (slang) (spy).

unarc

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (computing) To extract (a file) from a compressed archive in .
  • * 1988 , Forth Dimensions (volume 10, page 18)
    • I unarced' it with UNARC.F83, a good example of a useful application that runs using only standard words (and F83 in particular). The ' unarced file is VIDEO.BLK, which looks similar to the VIDEO.BLK file from VIDEOF83.
  • * 1988 , Don Berliner, Managing Your Hard Disk (page 496)
    • The individual files compressed within the archive file SUPPLIER on drive B are unarced and placed in the subdirectory
  • * 1991 , InfoWorld (volume 13, issues 9-17, page 390)
    • Windows setup entails unarcing files into system subdirectory
  • * 1993 , Microtimes (volume 10, page 210)
    • MegaD also provides an easy method for arcing or unarcing files using various compression programs.
  • * 2005 , Kirk St. Amant, ?Pavel Zemliansky, Internet-based Workplace Communications
    • Early in the semester, students also had to learn how to ftp files from a remote site and unarc them using PKXARC.

    narc

    English

    (wikipedia narc)

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviation of "narcotics officer".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A narcotics squad police officer.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternate spelling of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) (spy)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang)
    • “If you narc on me, I’ll rip your arms off”, said Tim to his little brother, as he passed him a cigarette.

    See also

    * stool pigeon

    Etymology 3

    Short for "narcosis", etymologically related to the first etymology (from "narcotics officer") but instead referring to the medical condition of nitrogen narcosis rather than to narcotics.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (e.g. while scuba diving).

    • Anagrams

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