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- Short: guide to all the XAD clients
- Author: Kyzer/CSG <kyzer@4u.net>
- Uploader: Kyzer/CSG <kyzer@4u.net>
- Type: docs/hyper
-
- This is an AmigaGuide document giving the lowdown and background material
- to every client written for Dirk Stoecker's XAD system.
-
- Each client entry includes the client author(s), the real authors behind
- the archiver, the filetypes used by each archiver (eg .LHA, .ZIP) and
- Internet or Aminet links to where the archiver (and source code) is
- available.
-
- Other handy topics include
- - the Bluffer's guide to compression.
- - the battle of Phil Katz vs SEA.
- - the LZW patent.
- - why Stefan Boberg is angry about Savage Compressor.
- - LZX's year 2000 bug.
- - Why Microsoft are evil.
- - Why Aladdin Software are evil.
- - Archivers with exactly the same compression routines.
-
- In this release, there's information on:
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- ACE, Amiga Plus Unpack, Amiga Standard FS, AmiPack, ARC, Arj, ar, bzip,
- bzip2, CAB, CompDisk, compress, COP, cpio, CrunchDisk, DImp, DMS, gzip, HA,
- LhA, LhF, LhPak SFX, LhSFX, LhWarp, LightFileSystem FS, LZX, Marc's
- DiskCruncher, MakeSFX, Microsoft FAT FS, MSA, MS-TNEF, MXM-Simple Archive
- SFX, NiteTimeGamesDos FS, PackDev, PackDisk, PAK, PCompress PACK, RAR, RPM,
- S-Omni, S-Pack, SanityOS FS, Savage Compressor, SDS Software SFX, Sensi
- disk FS, Shrink, StuffIt, SuperDuper3, tar, Trackmo-DOS FS, Warp, Wrapster,
- xDisk, xMash, XPK Archive, ZAP, Zip, ZOO & Zoom
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