In article <1991Jul17.070244.7015 at mcclb0.med.nyu.edu> smith at mcclb0.med.nyu.edu w
>In article <91Jul16.142746eet_dst.56687 at nic.funet.fi>, harper at NIC.FUNET.FI (Rob
>> For those of you interested in archivers for compressing files on various
>> computer systems, here is the latest report that I have come across.
>Any idea where these compressors can be found? I would really like to get
>ZOO V2.x for the VAX/VMS (or anything else for that matter), and other
>programs for the Mac and PC would be really welcome.
The following file is the best concise source of info I have found about
archiving / compression. I hope you find it useful. Please note, and
honor, David Lemson's request that his header be included in any
distribution of his text (his obvious hard and careful work should be
rewarded; unfortunately, there's no citation abstracts for internet
documentation... (yet... ;-)
Jonathan Kochmer
University Computing Services
University of Washington, Seattle
Internet and Statistical Consulting
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The most recent copy of this text may be anonymous ftp'd from
ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.59) in the directory /doc/pcnet as
as the file compression.
This file is maintained by David Lemson (lemson at uiuc.edu).
Please do not strip this note from this list when passing it on.
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DECODING THIS CHART: This chart has been compacted to fit into 80 columns
so it can be viewed on-line. The first column is the name of the compression/
archiving technique. The next field is the file extension given to the
resulting file. After that are 5 columns each for a different operating system.
Each one of these consists of the name of the file/program to undo the given
compression/archiving style and a letter that tells where the file/program may
be obtained. All symbols and letters are decoded at the bottom portion of this
file.
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FILE COMPRESSION, ARCHIVING, AND TEXT<->BINARY FORMATS
Last Update: 6/13/91 Operating System/Unpackaging Program
NAME File DOS * Mac * Unix * VM/CMS * Amiga *
Extension
abe ? abe.exe N - abe Q - -
afio - - - afio ? - -
ar (any) - - ar L - -
ARC .ARC arc602.exe B ArcMac1.3c A arc521 B arcutil K Arc 0.23 Aa
ARJ .ARJ arj210.exe B - - - -
BinHex .Hqx xbin23.zip B BinHex4.0 + A mcvert D binhex K -
binscii * - - - - -
BLU ? - - - - -
BOO .BOO msbpct.exe B ? ? - - -
msbmkb.exe
btoa (any)btoa N + btoa L - compress Ab
Bundle .bndl - Bundle E - - -
CardDump(any) - - - card K -
compact .C - - uncompact L - -
Compac-
tor .cpt - Compactor1.21 D - - -
Compac-
tor Pro .cpt - CompactorPro1.3 D - - -
compress.Z u16.zip A MacCompress3.2A compress L compress K compress Ac
comp430d.zip B
cpio ? pax2exe.zip H - cpio L - -
Crunch ? - - - arcutil K -
Diamond ^F - Diamond 3.0 Z - - -
Diet (any)diet110a.zip B - - - -
Disk-
Doubler .dd - DiskDoubler3.7 Z - - -
Disk- .DMS - - - - dms-102 T
Masher .EXE
DWC .DWC dwc-a501.exe B - - - -
FPack (any) ? ? FPack2.2 A ? ? - -
HPACK .HPK Beta test, not released yet - watch this space for more info *
HYPER .HYP hyper25.zip B - - - -
Imploder(any) - - - - imploder1.3 T
Larc .LZS larc333.zip B - - - -
LHA .LZH lha212.exe B - - - -
LHarc .LZH lh113c.exe H MacLHarc 0.41 D lharc102 U - LHarc Ad
LHWarp .LZW - - - - Lhwarp Ae
LU (LAR).LBR lue220.arc B - lar ? arcutil K -
LZari ? - MacLZAri 7-11 ? - - -
LZEXE .EXE lzexe91.zip A - - - -
LZSS .lzss ? ? LZSS 2.0b5 ? - - -
MDCD .MD mdcd10.arc B - - - -
nupack ? - - - - -
pack .Z - - unpack L - -
PackIt .pit UnPackIt ? PackIt3.1.3 A unpit ? - -
PAK .PAK pak250.exe H ? ? - - -
PKLITE .EXE pklte105.exe B - - - -
PKPAK .ARC pk361.exe A ArcMac1.3c A arc521 I arcutil K PKAX ?
PKZIP .ZIP pkz110eu.exe B UnZip1.1 0 D unzip41 B - PKAZip Af
Power- (any)
Packer .pp - - - - PowerPacker Ai
Scrunch .COM scrnch.arc B - - - -
Shark - - sh E
shell - .shar
archive toadshr1.arc B UnShar2.0 D unshar L - UnShar Ag
shrinkit.shk - - - - -
Shrink-
ToFit .stf - STF1.2 ? - - -
SPL ? - ? ? - - -
Squash .ARC squash.arc B - - - -
Squeeze .xQx sqpc131.arc B ? ? ? ? arcutil K Sq.Usq Ah
StuffIt .Sit mactopc. ? ? StuffIt 1.6 D unsit D - -
tar .tar tar.zip A UnTar2.0 D tar L - TarSplit Ai
tarread.arc I
extar10.zip B
pdtar.exe C
terse (any)terse.exe K - - terse K -
uuencode.UUE toaduu20.zip B uutool2.0.2 D uudecode L arcutil K uudecode Aj
Warp .WRP - - - - WarpUtil Ak
whap .AP ? ? yabbawhap M ? yabbawhap M
xxencode.XXE toaduu20.zip B - xxdecode A xxdecode K -
yabba .Y ? ? yabbawhap M ? yabbawhap M
ZOO .ZOO zoo201.exe A MacBooz2.1 D zoo201 B zoo K amigazoo A
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Extended Chart:
VMS * Apple 2 * Atari * OS/2 * Windows3
abe ? - - - - -
afio - - - - - -
ar (any) - - - - -
ARC .arc arcvms.uue B dearc.bsq.Z B arc521b.arc R arc2.arc A -
ARJ .ARJ - - - - -
BinHex .Hqx - - - - -
binscii * - binscii.exe O - - -
BLU ? - ? - - -
BOO .BOO - - - - -
btoa (any) - - - - -
Bundle .bndl - - - - -
CardDump(any) - - - - -
compact .C - - - - -
Compac-
tor .cpt - - - - -
compress.Z lzcomp.exe P compress.shk J compress.arc R - -
cpio ? - - - - -
Crunch ? - - - - -
Disk-
Doubler ? - - - - -
DWC .DWC - - - - -
FPack (any) - - - - -
HPACK .HPK ? * ? * ? * ? * ? *
HYPER .HYP - - - - -
Larc .LZS - - - - -
LHarc .LZH - - lharc113.arc R clhar103 S -
LHWarp .LZW - - - - -
LU(LAR) .LBR vmssweep B - - - -
LZari ? - - - - -
LZEXE .EXE - - - - -
LZSS .lzss - - - - -
MDCD .MD - - - - -
nupack ? - nupack B - - -
PackIt .pit - - - - -
PAK .PAK - - - - -
PKPAK .ARC - - pkunarc.arc R - -
PKZIP .ZIP unzip41 B - - pkz101-2.exe A -
Power-
Packer (any) - - - - -
Scrunch .COM - - - - -
shell-
archive .shar - unshar.shk J shar.arc R - -
shrinkit.shk - ? O - - -
Shrink-
ToFit .stf - - - - -
SPL ? - - - - -
Squash .ARC - - - - -
Squeeze ? vmsusq.pas B - ezsqueeze.arc R - -
StuffIt .Sit - - - - -
tar .tar vmstar Q - sttar.arc R - -
terse (any) - - - - -
uuencode.uue uudecode2.vmsB uu.en.decode J - - -
Warp .WRP - - - - -
whap ? ? - ? ? -
xxencode.XXE - - - - -
yabba ? ? - ? ? -
ZOO .ZOO z201src1.arc B - booz.arc R booz.exe A -
z201src2.arc
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WHERE TO GET THEM:
A. ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59]
