Date: Thu, 14 May 92 10:06:08 -0400
From: "Timothy B. Cera" <cera@128.227.104.140>
Subject: [*] Ultimate Compression Utility table
I follow the BIONET-L and this was posted just the other day. I thought
that it would have utility to the info-mac community so here it is. The
chart is set up to be viewed in 80 columns with a mono-spaced font.
There is also an address to ftp the most recent copy. I did not compact/
stuff/hqx this file since it is text to begin with. (has anyone noticed
that hqx will eliminate most of the 'stuffing' - size wise?)
ENJOY
tim cera
tim@ufcia.health.ufl.edu
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The most recent copy of this text may be anonymous ftp'd from
ftp.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.59) in the directory /doc/pcnet as
the file compression.
This file is maintained by David Lemson (lemson@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: 1/23/92 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
ARCHDOS .IBM Internal IBM only - creates .EXE self-extractors also
ARJ .ARJ arj220.exe B - unarj220 B unarj K -
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 (unknown)
HYPER .HYP hyper25.zip B - - - -
Imploder(any) - - - - imploder1.3 T
JPEG (any) (See note at bottom - C source available) ***
Larc .LZS larc333.zip B - - - -
LHA .LZH lha213.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 pklte112.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
Ship (any) (See note at bottom about Ship and Portable Zip) *
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
ltarv1.zip B
terse (any)Copyright IBM - - vmarc + -
uuencode.UUE toaduu20.zip B uutool2.0.3 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 zoo210.exe A MacBooz2.1 D zoo210 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 unarj220 B - - - -
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 ZOO210.TAR-Z B - booz.arc R booz.exe A -
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WHERE TO GET THEM:
A. ftp.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59]
/pc/exec-pc/ {Zip, arc, lots of good stuff}
/pc/local
/mac/
/amiga/fish/(see individual references)
a ff070 b ff051 c ff051 d ff312 e ff305 f ff311 g ff345
h ff051 i ff053 j ff092 k ff243 i ff253
B. wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.152.135.4] (NFS mounted on uxa and mrcnext)
/mirrors/msdos/arc-lbr/ {arc, LHARC}
/filutl/ {msbpct - BOO, toadshr, DIET}
/sq-usq/ {NUSQ}
/zip/ {unzip}
/mac/
/info-mac/util/
/unix-c/arc-progs/ {ARC}
/misc/vaxvms/ {UNZIP for VMS}
/misc/unix/ {UNZIP, ZOO for UNIX/VMS, UNARJ}
C. omnigate.clarkson.edu [128.153.4.2]
/pub/ncsa2.2tn/
D. sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]
/info-mac/util/ {Stuffit classic, Compactor Pro, etc.}
/unix/ {unsit, mcvert}
E. uunet.uu.net [192.48.96.2]
/pub/
/ioccc/shar.1990.* {shark}
F. grape.ecs.clarkson.edu [128.153.28.129.]
- collection varies - see the file 'allfiles'
G. watsun.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.39.2]
Definitive source for KERMIT releases for all machines
/kermit/a/
H. wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [192.88.110.20]
Wuarchive's mirror is updated within 48 hours - recommended to
use wuarchive instead of simtel20.
cd pd1:<msdos.arc-lbr>
I. pc.usl.edu [130.70.40.3]
/pub/unix/
J. plains.nodak.edu [134.129.111.64]
/pub/appleII/GS/utils/
/nonGS/packers/
K. vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98]
binhex - cd public.474
card - cd public.460
others - cd public.477
- NOTE: UUDECODE, UNARJ, ZOO and COMPRESS are originally from
LISTSERV@BLEKUL11
L. (should be available on all major unix systems including
wuarchive.wustl.edu in /unix-c/arc-progs)
M. comp.sources.unix archives
(varies, including wuarchive in /usenet/comp.sources.unix)
N. comp.binaries.ibm.pc archives
(varies, including wuarchive in /usenet/comp.binaries.ibm.pc)
O. tybalt.caltech.edu [131.215.139.100]
/pub/apple2/
/shrinkits/
P. kuhub.cc.ukans.edu [129.237.1.10]
/LZW/
Q. vmsa.oac.uci.edu [128.200.9.5]
/
R. terminator.cc.umich.edu [141.211.164.8]
/atari/archivers/
S. mtsg.ubc.ca [137.82.27.1]
/os2
T. ab20.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.64]
/amiga/utils/archivers/
U. alt.sources archives (available on wuarchive.wustl.edu in
/usenet/alt.sources/)
{LHarc is articles number 2217 and 2218}
Z. Commercial software product - check discount mail order
software houses, computer stores.
NOTES:
Symbols: + means see the notes below for special information
- means that nothing exists to the best of my knowledge
? means that something exists but I do not know the name
of the program or where to get it
* means that e-mail should be sent to lemson@uiuc.edu
for details/explanation
JPEG - source (Free code) is available in
uunet.uu.net:/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v2.tar.Z. Supports conversion
between JPEG "JFIF" format and image files in PBMPLUS PPM, Utah RLE,
Truevision Targa, and GIF file formats. Contact for more info:
Dr. Thomas G. Lane, organizer, Independent JPEG Group
Internet: tgl@cs.cmu.edu BITNET: tgl%cs.cmu.edu@cmuccvma
Some uuencode/uudecode programs are able to read xxencode files.
VMARC, available with the command "TELL LISTSERV AT RPIECS GET VMARC
PACKAGE" from a CMS machine, will decode any CMS terse program. The
PC version of terse is a commercial program available from IBM
directly.
There is a portable 'ZIP' that goes along with unzip41 that is
available from valeria.cs.ucla.edu:/pub/zip10ex.zip. 'ship' is also
available in that same package. It is a program like uuencode, but
is more robust.
There is a set of translators that will allow Stuffit Deluxe to read
btoa, UUencoded files, zip, pack, tar, MacBinary, and others. They are in
sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/utils/stuffit-deluxe-translators.hqx.
When using tar.exe for PC's, the order of option flags is important.
For extraction, use tar -tvf <filename>.
ARC : From SEA, ARC 6.02 is the latest widespread shareware release.
It is available at A (ux1.cso.uiuc.edu).
Also, SEA has ARC 7.00, but it is commercial, not shareware.
When using binscii.exe for an Apple II, there are different file extensions
depending on the type of file being changed.
BinHexed files (with the extension .hqx) can be UnBinHexed with BinHex 4.0 or
Stuffit. BinHex5.0 format is a MacBinary format, while BinHex 4.0 files
are ASCII format.
The files listed are only guaranteed to uncompress/unarchive.
To make a compression/archive, further software may be needed.
USAGE NOTES:
There are certain "standard" combinations of compression used:
unix - .tar.Z
(often this will be .taz for PC's)
unix - tar.Z.btoa (abbrev. to .TZB sometimes) (aka "tarmail")
mac - .sit.hqx
- these must be undone in order starting at the end of the name
Sometimes an archive may be self-extracting. These will look like normal
executable programs. Simply run them to undo the archive.
LZEXE (PC), PKLITE(PC), Imploder(Amiga), and PowerPacker(Amiga)
are executable compressors.
They compress an executable file and attach an uncompressing header so that
the file can still be executed while in compressed form.
The listed programs for these utilities compress files, in order to uncompress
a file with these types of compression, just execute them.
DIET (PC) is a TSR program that compresses and decompresses both
executables and data files as needed.
DEFINITIVE SOURCES:
PKWARE Support BBS - avaliable 24 hours
(414) 352-7176
ZOO - author: Rahul Dhesi
source code in C on Usenet and GEnie's IBM PC Roundtable
ARC - SEA (System Enhancement Associates, Inc.)
21 New Street
Wayne, NJ 07470
Rob Harper / E-mail: harper@convex.csc.fi
Finnish State Computer Centre / Molbio/software: harper@nic.funet.fi
P.O. Box 40, SF-02101 Espoo / Telephone: +358 0 457 2076
Finland / Fax: +358 0 457 2302