Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!know!login From: c506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: .pak files Message-ID: <23486@know.pws.bull.com> Date: 13 Apr 91 21:07:55 GMT Sender: login@pws.bulL.com Lines: 25 In article gwing@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Geoff C Wing) writes: > > jol@sei.cmu.edu (DR. J) writes: > > >What are .pak files? What was used to make these files? > > .pak files are self de-archiving files. just run as a normal executable and it > will remove the files from itself. They are made with a program called : > pak or pak2(which is the latest(?)(but fairly old) version). > The compression was only average and there is really no call for it due to the > popularity of lharc ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I disagree here. Pak is currently the only solution to the chicken or the egg syndrom in archivers. That is, "how do you archive the archivers?" Zoo.zoo or Lharc.lzh just won't do. Transfering bare executables usually doesn't work and even when it does, you have no documentation. I would personally like to lay my hands on working copy of Pak. There's a Pak in the Fred Fish collection but it's either an early version or a totally unrelated program as it does not produce self disolving archives. Eric Edwards: c506634 @ "I say we take off and nuke the entire site Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet -- Sigourney Weaver, _Aliens_