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- Short: Compression package, developer's additions
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- TITLE
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- XPK 2.5 - A generic compression package
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- AUTHORS
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- Urban Dominik Mueller umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
- Bryan Ford bryanf@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com
- Peter Struijk ddws0168@dutiws.tudelft.nl
- Christian von 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
- Torsten Juergeleit bj030@aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de
- Matthias Scheler tron@uni-paderborn.de
- Uwe Roehm roehm@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de
- Martin A. Blatter blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
- ...and more.
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- DESCRIPTION
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- XPK is an interfacing standard between application programs and packer
- libraries. Every XPK application program can pack data with any XPK
- packer.
- There are some applications bundled with this archive: 2 (de)compressing
- filesystems, a packing app-icon, command line packers, a LoadSeg() patch,
- an adapted image displayer, a movie player, a text viewer and many more.
- All these can thus handle compressed data.
- Five packers are included in this package, plus two very safe encryptors
- and various demo or special purpose XPK libraries.
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- VERSION INFO
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- This is only a subset of the changes, check the HISTORY file within.
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- XPK 2.5
- - Distribution cleaned up
- - OVERVIEW and HISTORY documents added
- - Minor bug fixes in the master library
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- SHRI 0.3
- - New packer higly optimized for compression, but slow.
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- IMPL 1.0
- - Docs added
- - Version string added
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- xPK 1.1
- - Docs written
- - Version string added
- - Now -e as well as -u supported for decomp
- - Bug with trying to pack nonexisting files removed
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- xDrop 2.21
- - German doc added
- - Now keeps file attributes
- - Bug with long file names removed
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- Most 1.31
- - New text viewer with XPK support
- - WB and keyboard interface, scrollbar
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- XPK-Handler 1.0
- - Alternate compressing file handler
- - Compatible with XFH
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- FILE NAMES / HOST NAMES
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- XPK can be found on all AmiNet anonymous FTP sites in the path
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- /pub/aminet/util/pack/xpk25usr.lha (the user's edition)
- /pub/aminet/util/pack/xpk25dev.lha (the developer's extension)
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- Currently AmiNet consists of:
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- Switzerland amiga.physik.unizh.ch 130.60.80.80
- Switzerland litamiga.epfl.ch 128.178.151.32
- Scandinavia ftp.luth.se 130.240.16.3
- Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95
- Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7
- Germany ftp.th-darmstadt.de 130.83.55.75
- USA ftp.etsu.edu 192.43.199.20
- USA ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4
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- DISTRIBUTABILITY
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- XPK is copyrighted, but freely distributable for non-commercial use.
- Some parts of XPK have a different legal status, ie. PD, GPL or
- shareware.
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