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Short: Compression package, user's edition
TITLE
XPK 2.5 - 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 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.
DESCRIPTION
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.
VERSION INFO
This is only a subset of the changes, check the HISTORY file within.
XPK 2.5
- Distribution cleaned up
- OVERVIEW and HISTORY documents added
- Minor bug fixes in the master library
SHRI 0.3
- New packer higly optimized for compression, but slow.
IMPL 1.0
- Docs added
- Version string added
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
xDrop 2.21
- German doc added
- Now keeps file attributes
- Bug with long file names removed
Most 1.31
- New text viewer with XPK support
- WB and keyboard interface, scrollbar
XPK-Handler 1.0
- Alternate compressing file handler
- Compatible with XFH
FILE NAMES / HOST NAMES
XPK can be found on all AmiNet anonymous FTP sites in the path
/pub/aminet/util/pack/xpk25usr.lha (the user's edition)
/pub/aminet/util/pack/xpk25dev.lha (the developer's extension)
Currently AmiNet consists of:
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
DISTRIBUTABILITY
XPK is copyrighted, but freely distributable for non-commercial use.
Some parts of XPK have a different legal status, ie. PD, GPL or
shareware.