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-- RDAR --

RDAR stands for Reduced Disk Archive Format and serves to be a minimal bundle format (similar to tar)
for various applications, primarily operating system initial ramdisks. RDAR does not intend to
replace existing formats and instead aims to provide a potential alternative to them for
minimalists.

-- BUILDING --

To build, you'll need bop. This can be found at https://aptel.org/bop/

-- FORMAT --

The format is simple:

   0: root [points to root data region (rdr)]
  /
 /
0~  [DATA DESCRIPTOR] ---------+ OFFSET
1~  [DATA DESCRIPTOR] -------- |---+ OFFSET
2~  [FILE]  <------------------+   |
3~  [FILE]  <----------------------+