Short: Guide to all the XAD clients Author: Kyzer/CSG Uploader: Charlene McNulty (Virus Help Team Canada) Type: docs/hyper Version: 1.3 Size: xadclients.lha 19.522 bytes -------------------------------------------------------------- VHT-Canada Note: This updated XADClients.guide v1.3 was first released on the XAD Mailing list. This is the readme file from the older v1.1 on Aminet. Installation: Put this .guide in the same directory as your Voodoo-X program. -------------------------------------------------------------- This is an AmigaGuide document giving the lowdown and background material to every client written for Dirk Stoecker's XAD system. Each client entry includes the client author(s), the real authors behind the archiver, the filetypes used by each archiver (eg .LHA, .ZIP) and Internet or Aminet links to where the archiver (and source code) is available. Other handy topics include - the Bluffer's guide to compression. - the battle of Phil Katz vs SEA. - the LZW patent. - why Stefan Boberg is angry about Savage Compressor. - LZX's year 2000 bug. - Why Microsoft are evil. - Why Aladdin Software are evil. - Archivers with exactly the same compression routines. In this release, there's information on: ACE, Amiga Plus Unpack, Amiga Standard FS, AmiPack, ARC, Arj, ar, bzip, bzip2, CAB, CompDisk, compress, COP, cpio, CrunchDisk, DImp, DMS, gzip, HA, LhA, LhF, LhPak SFX, LhSFX, LhWarp, LightFileSystem FS, LZX, Marc's DiskCruncher, MakeSFX, Microsoft FAT FS, MSA, MS-TNEF, MXM-Simple Archive SFX, NiteTimeGamesDos FS, PackDev, PackDisk, PAK, PCompress PACK, RAR, RPM, S-Omni, S-Pack, SanityOS FS, Savage Compressor, SDS Software SFX, Sensi disk FS, Shrink, StuffIt, SuperDuper3, tar, Trackmo-DOS FS, Warp, Wrapster, xDisk, xMash, XPK Archive, ZAP, Zip, ZOO & Zoom --------------------------------------------------------------- Archive has been checked and signed with my PGP key, so you can verify there was no tampering with the file after placed on the server. Use 'pgp xadclients.txt xadclients.lha' to check signature Key Fingerprint: F7 D2 A7 F7 5B 9F 69 F8 B3 9D 65 9A D4 27 C6 05 Charlene contact: http://www.vht-can.ca/contact.html md5sum: http://www.vht-can.ca/downloads.html -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3 Comment: Signed by Charlene, using PGPAmiga iQCVAwUAQCgbcfrh//oWbqdVAQF85gQAgAMsrKEIGi9OYwlbdyWShMS0/ra1wV8S D58GjppRVGo/+eqeategIA9ogXyCuUvRuVjHvcEYpgynK5Q7VvvXfAe5H/qVjsrK gxyHUGIKV9gYLivKHP7dHHvR+6PFc72WNdzRiHUgBzDY54lugXPoHdOpmbbcy3qw 1ngARpc14n4= =DSRT -----END PGP MESSAGE-----