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TITLE
XPK 2.4 - A generic compression package
AUTHORS
Urban Dominik Mueller umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Bryan Ford bryanf@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com
Peter Struijk ddws0168@dutiws.tudelft.nl
Christian Roques roques@karlsruhe.gmd.de
Andre Beck beck@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de
Marc Zimmermann zimmerma@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Kristian Nielsen bombadil@diku.dk
Matthias Scheler tron@uni-paderborn.de
Martin A. Blatter blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
...and more.
DESCRIPTION
XPK is an interfacing standard between applications and packer
libraries. Any XPK application can handle every XPK packer.
Included applictaions: A (de)compressing file handler, a packing
app-icon, command line packers, a LoadSeg() patch, adapted
image displayer and movie player, and many more. Also included:
4 nice packers, 2 very safe encryptors, and some demonstration
libraries.
FILE NAMES
xpk24usr.lha - User's package, contents see above
xpk24dev.lha - Developer's package, for writing apps and libs
HOST NAME / DIRECTORY
XPK can be found on the three currently working AmiNet sites
(the others are restructuring). It's in the util/pack/
subdirectory. The sites are:
Switzerland amiga.physik.unizh.ch pub/aminet/
Scandinavia ftp.luth.se pub/OS/amiga/
USA merlin.etsu.edu pub/aminet/
DISTRIBUTABILITY
XPK is copyrighted, but freely distributable. Some parts of XPK have
a different legal status, mostly PD or GPL.