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+# dar-archive
+
+Pure-Rust reader for **DAR** (Disk ARchive) archives, part of the
+[chat4n6](https://github.com/SecurityRonin/chat4n6) forensic toolkit.
+
+Reads DAR catalogs and extracts file contents with no external `libdar`
+dependency — the archive is memory-mapped and file bytes are returned
+zero-copy (`Cow::Borrowed`) straight from the mapping.
+
+## Features
+
+- Single-file (`.dar`) and multi-slice (`name.1.dar`, `name.2.dar`, …) archives.
+- Catalog parsing into `DarEntry` records (path, size, directory flag, Unix
+  permissions, slice index, data offset).
+- Bounds-checked reads — an entry whose data would fall outside its slice is
+  rejected rather than read out of range.
+
+## Usage
+
+```rust
+use dar_archive::DarArchive;
+use std::path::Path;
+
+// Single-file archive.
+let archive = DarArchive::open(Path::new("evidence.1.dar"))?;
+
+// Or a multi-slice set, given the basename (no slice number, no extension):
+// let archive = DarArchive::open_slices(Path::new("evidence"))?;
+
+for entry in archive.entries() {
+    if entry.is_dir {
+        continue;
+    }
+    let bytes = archive.read(entry)?;
+    println!("{} ({} bytes)", entry.path.display(), bytes.len());
+}
+# Ok::<(), anyhow::Error>(())
+```
+
+For a multi-slice set the catalog lives only in the last (terminal) slice;
+earlier slices hold file data.
+
+## License
+
+MIT