BZIP2 for XFD

pintcat · 28 August 2011, 09:22

I'm looking for a bzip2 client for xfdmaster. Already searched the Aminet, but couldn't find it. Is there any?

BuZz · 28 August 2011, 11:26

xfdmaster support decrunching with xpk afair, and there is bzip2 for that

http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpkBZP2

pintcat · 28 August 2011, 12:32

I already have this xpkBZP2 library and the xpk client for xfd. Thus it should've worked already.

After a few more tests it turned out that even xpk cannot handle my .bz2 files. I used the original bzip2 cli tool to compress the files. Maybe it's algorithm is slightly different from the one xpk uses?

pintcat · 28 August 2011, 14:10

Bingo! xpk's BZIP2 IS different from the original. If I use xPack to crunch a file it can be decrunched with xpk and xfd too! The other way around, the original BZIP2 can't handle xpk's, nor does any other decruncher.

BuZz · 28 August 2011, 14:20

aah yeh. that makes sense. it will make/decrunch xpk compressed files, and they will contain a header etc, specific for xpk.

however: I think this is what you want. ok not xdf but xad, which should still be useful - funnily enough made by a guy I know, so I really dont know how i didn't remember

http://www.kyzer.me.uk/pack/xad/#bzip2

pintcat · 28 August 2011, 15:54

Thanx, but I really can't use xad plugins here. I have lots of text files (guides, docs etc.) and my intention was to crunch them all and open each with XFDGuide, an AmiGuide/text viewer which uses xfd to automatically decrunch the file before showing it. And - to be even more niggling - bzip2 seems to be by far the best packer for ASCII contents.
I think I can live with that xfd-xpk combination. As long as XFDGuide is able to handle those xpk crunched files I'm a satisfied customer.

28 August 2011, 09:22	#1
pintcat Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Berlin/Germany Posts: 226	BZIP2 for XFD I'm looking for a bzip2 client for xfdmaster. Already searched the Aminet, but couldn't find it. Is there any?

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28 August 2011, 11:26	#2
BuZz Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oxford / UK Age: 47 Posts: 583	xfdmaster support decrunching with xpk afair, and there is bzip2 for that http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpkBZP2

28 August 2011, 12:32	#3
pintcat Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Berlin/Germany Posts: 226	I already have this xpkBZP2 library and the xpk client for xfd. Thus it should've worked already. After a few more tests it turned out that even xpk cannot handle my .bz2 files. I used the original bzip2 cli tool to compress the files. Maybe it's algorithm is slightly different from the one xpk uses?

28 August 2011, 14:10	#4
pintcat Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Berlin/Germany Posts: 226	Bingo! xpk's BZIP2 IS different from the original. If I use xPack to crunch a file it can be decrunched with xpk and xfd too! The other way around, the original BZIP2 can't handle xpk's, nor does any other decruncher.

28 August 2011, 14:20	#5
BuZz Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oxford / UK Age: 47 Posts: 583	aah yeh. that makes sense. it will make/decrunch xpk compressed files, and they will contain a header etc, specific for xpk. however: I think this is what you want. ok not xdf but xad, which should still be useful - funnily enough made by a guy I know, so I really dont know how i didn't remember http://www.kyzer.me.uk/pack/xad/#bzip2

28 August 2011, 15:54	#6
pintcat Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Berlin/Germany Posts: 226	Thanx, but I really can't use xad plugins here. I have lots of text files (guides, docs etc.) and my intention was to crunch them all and open each with XFDGuide, an AmiGuide/text viewer which uses xfd to automatically decrunch the file before showing it. And - to be even more niggling - bzip2 seems to be by far the best packer for ASCII contents. I think I can live with that xfd-xpk combination. As long as XFDGuide is able to handle those xpk crunched files I'm a satisfied customer.

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