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Pascal/Delphi Source File
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1996-09-03
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--------A-ARC-------------------------------
The ARC files are archive files created by the SEA ARC program. The
compression has been superceded by more recent compression programs.
Similar archives can be created by the PAK and PkPAK programs. There
have been many variations and enhancements to the ARC format though not
as many as to the TIFF format.
You may have to use some (paranoid) checks to ensure that you actually
are processing an ARC file, since other archivers also adopted the idea
of putting a 01Ah byte at offset 0, namely the Hyper archiver. To check
if you have a Hyper-archive, check the next two bytes for "HP" or "ST"
(or look below for "HYP"). Also the ZOO archiver also does put a 01Ah at
the start of the file, see the ZOO entry below. OFFSET Count TYPE
Description
0000h 1 byte ID=1Ah
0001h 1 byte Compression method (see table 0001)
0002h 12 char File name
000Fh 1 dword Compressed file size
0013h 1 dword File date in MS-DOS format (see table 0009)
0017h 1 word 16-bit CRC
0019h 1 dword Original file size
="SIZ"
(Table 0001)
ARC compression types
0 - End of archive marker
1 - unpacked (obsolete) - ARC 1.0 ?
2 - unpacked - ARC 3.1
3 - packed (RLE encoding)
4 - squeezed (after packing)
5 - crunched (obsolete) - ARC 4.0
6 - crunched (after packing) (obsolete) - ARC 4.1
7 - crunched (after packing, using faster hash algorithm) - ARC 4.6
8 - crunched (after packing, using dynamic LZW variations) - ARC 5.0
9 - Squashed c/o Phil Katz (no packing) (var. on crunching)
10 - crushed (PAK only)
11 - distilled (PAK only)
12-19 - to 19 unknown (ARC 6.0 or later) - ARC 7.0 (?)
20-29 - ?informational items? - ARC 6.0
30-39 - ?control items? - ARC 6.0
40+ - reserved
According to SEA's technical memo, the information and control items
were added to ARC 6.0. Information items use the same headers as
archived files, although the original file size (and name?) can be
ignored.
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 2 byte Length of header (includes "length"
and "type"?)
0002h 1 byte (sub)type
0003h ? byte data
Informational item types as used by ARC 6.0 :
Block type Subtype Description
20 archive info
0 archive description (ASCIIZ)
1 name of creator program (ASCIIZ)
2 name of modifier program (ASCIIZ)
21 file info
0 file description (ASCIIZ)
1 long name (if not MS-DOS "8.3" filename)
2 extended date-time info (reserved)
3 icon (reserved)
4 file attributes (ASCIIZ)
Attributes use an uppercase letter to signify the
following:
R read access
W write access
H hidden file
S system file
N network shareable
22 operating system info (reserved)
(Table 0009)
Format of the MS-DOS time stamp (32-bit) The MS-DOS time stamp is
limited to an even count of seconds, since the count for seconds is only
5 bits wide.
31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16
|<---- year-1980 --->|<- month ->|<--- day ---->|
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
|<--- hour --->|<---- minute --->|<- second/2 ->|
EXTENSION:ARC,PAK
OCCURENCES:PC
PROGRAMS:SEA ARC,PAK,PkPAK
SEE ALSO:HYP,ZOO
VALIDATION:FileSize="SIZ"