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Submitted-by: jac
Posting-number: Volume 1, Administrivia: 17

I would like to thank Doug Gwyn and Peter da Silva for their help in
developing the Apple Archive Format.

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	Apple Archive Format

COPYRIGHT 1990 by Jonathan A. Chandross.
All rights reserved.

The AAF is a simple archive format designed for shipping around Apple
source code.  An archive consists of a series of lines.  Each line is
interpreted according to the first character of the line.  The
interpretations are:
	=	the name of the unpacked file starting here
	-	a source line to be unpacked into the current file
	+	end of archive.
Lines beginning with any other character are simply output to the console.

A simple example of this format:
	From: reagan@ciavax.mil
	To: freeworld
	Subject: My first program.
	Here's some great code.  Haven't had this much fun since
	I almost started WWIII.
			Ronbo.
	=helloworld.c
	-main()
	-{
	-	printf("Hello World\n");
	-}
	=Read.Me
	-Test out a C compiler; just compile and execute.
	+ All done.
	Ron
	ron@ciavax.mil

This file would create the files "helloworld.c" and "Read.Me".  When
the archive was unpacked, all of the non-source and non-file-name
lines would be output to the console until the '+' was encountered.

Using '=' to specify a file name and '-' to specify a line of source
allows a standard USENET or email file to be unpacked without removing
any preamble or trailing information.

The '+' at the end of the file indicates the end of an archive.  Lines
occurring past this point will not be processed at all.

The '=' and "+" sentinels are due to Doug Gwyn.

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