Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!ntg!dplatt From: dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Compactor format? Help needed. Message-ID: <601@goblin.ntg.com> Date: 21 May 91 17:24:06 GMT References: Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc. Palo Alto CA Lines: 22 In article 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. -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 813-8917 Domain: dplatt@ntg.com UUCP: ...apple!ntg!dplatt USNAIL: New Technologies Group Inc. 2468 Embarcardero Way, Palo Alto CA 94303