Re: Compactor format? Help needed.

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From: Dave Platt
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 17:24

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In article <RSM.91May20190107@coral.math.arizona.edu> rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) writes:

>What is Compactor format?  Does anyone have a formal specification for it?

It's one of the newer archive formats used on the Macintosh... sort of
like "tar" and "compress" all rolled into one.

Unfortunately, the author has declined to document the format.  Unlike
the older (and somewhat-less-efficient) StuffIt format, there's no
clean way to write a Compactor decompressor for Unix, MS-DOS, or any
other system.  This isn't to say that it can't be done... I'm sure it
can... but to date I haven't heard of anyone who has succeeded.

For this reason, many network archives insist that archived files be
stored in StuffIt format, rather than in Compactor or StuffIt Deluxe or
DiskDoubler format.


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