This is the specifications for the archive file which is handled by the Game Extractor plugin Archive_PWS.

Endian Order:	Little Endian
Compression:	ZLib
Encryption:	None

This format is used by the following Games:

WRC 7	*.pws
WRC 9	*.pws

This is the format specification information:

// HEADER 2 - Unknown (7) 4 - Unknown Offset/Length 4 - Unknown Offset/Length 4 - Unknown Offset/Length 4 - Unknown Offset/Length 4 - Details Directory Offset 4 - File Data Offset (26) // FILE DATA // for each file X - File Data (ZLib Compression) // DETAILS DIRECTORY 4 - Number of Files // for each file 4 - File Offset 4 - File Length // UNKNOWN DIRECTORIES X - Unknown

These are the accompanying notes and further information:

Many files have length = 0

Game Extractor is able to read files of this type, as well as files from thousands of other games. To give it a try, download Game Extractor (Basic Version) for free, and see what it can do.

For further information on this format, refer to the source code on our GitHub repository.