OpenUp 3.0 PB 1

OpenUp allows you to double-click on a variety of formats of compressed and archived files and have them unarchived and opened in the Workspace without having to resort to command-line tools.

OpenUp was developed by Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, and sponsored by P & L Systems.

Version Changes

•	Recompiled on Mac OS X (Big deal)
•	Removed support for StuffIt since we can't support it properly (being a proprietary format and all)
•	Removed support for binhex, macbinary, compactor (there are other tools on OS X that are willing to deal with the Mac Resource fork)
•	New Application.icns (thanks to William Adams - wadams@atlis.com, ATLIS Graphics & Design)
•	Added support for handling spaces and a variety of other wonky characters in filenames
•	Some UI tweaking
•	work around hack since NSWorkspace doesn't currently respond to selectFile:inFileViewerRootedAtPath:

Usage Hints

•	Change the target directory in preferences to ~/Library/Desktop and turn off file selection to have decompressed files appear on the desktop

Features

•	Double-click Workspace decompression of many formats
•	Services support for .tgz, .paz and .zip compression (expandable)  
•	Extendable by knowledgable users  
•	Includes the required binaries for handling many additional formats  
•	Full commented source code available

Supported Formats

Extension	Compression	Description
	Type
.arc	arc	ARC ﬁles, ancient compression format on IBM PCs
.arj	unarj	ARJ ﬁles, compression format on IBM PCs
.asc	atob	atob, alternative to uudecode
.b64	uudeview	Base 64 encoding, common in MIME email
.bin	macunpack	Macbinary ﬁle, common on Macintosh
.bz2	bzip	Compressed using BZIP, an up and coming format
.bz	bzip	Compressed using BZIP, an up and coming format
.compressed	gnutar	tar & compressed archive, alternate extension under NEXTSTEP
.gnutar.gz	gnutar	gnutar & gzipped archive
.gnutar.bz2	gnutar	gnutar & bzipped archive
.gnutar.bz	gnutar	gnutar & bzipped archive
.gnutar	gnutar	gnutar archive, common on Unix/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody
.gsm	untoast	TOAST compressed sound archives (lossy)
.gz	gunzip	gzipped ﬁle, better compression than compress, no patent LZW issues
.lha	lha	LHA ﬁles, ancient compression format on IBM PCs
.lzh	lha	LHA ﬁles, ancient compression format on IBM PCs
.mime	uudeview	Base 64 encoding, common in MIME email
.tar-gz	gnutar	tar & gzipped archive, alternate extension common on VMS
.tar-z	gnutar	tar & gzipped archive, alternate extension common on VMS
.tar.Z	gnutar	tar & compressed archive
.tar.gz	gnutar	tar & gzipped archive
.tar.bz	gnutar	tar & bzipped archive
.tar.bz2	gnutar	tar & bzipped archive
.tar	gnutar	tar archive, common on Unix/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody
.taz	gnutar	tar & gzipped archive, alternate extension common on IBM
.tgz	gnutar	tar & gzipped archive, alternate extension common on IBM/Macintosh/Rhapsody
.tbz	gnutar	tar & bzipped archive, alternate extension common on IBM/Macintosh/Rhapsody
.tbz2	gnutar	tar & bzipped archive, alternate extension common on IBM/Macintosh/Rhapsody
.uu	uudeview	uuencoding (7-bit ASCII encoding of 8-bit data), common on Usenet
.uue	uudeview	uuencoding (7-bit ASCII encoding of 8-bit data), common on Usenet
.xx	uudeview	xxencoding (7-bit ASCII encoding of 8-bit data)
.xxe	uudeview	xxencoding (7-bit ASCII encoding of 8-bit data)
.z	gunzip	gzipped or pack ﬁle, original extension for gzip, renamed due to conﬂict with pack ﬁles
.zip	unzip	ZIP ﬁles, the standard on Windows 95/NT
.zoo	booz	ZOO ﬁles, ancient compression format on IBM PCs
.Z	gunzip	compressed ﬁle, common on Unix

Disclaimer

Scott Anguish, P & L Systems, and Apple Computer, Inc. make no express or implied warranty or representation of any kind with respect to this software, including any warranty that it is defect-free.  ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS HEREBY DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT WILL THE AFOREMENTIONED PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SOFTWARE.  The parties are under no obligation to provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise.

For more information…

For more information about OpenUp, see the Stepwise WWW site at:

	http://www.stepwise.com/Software/OpenUp/

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