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Add support for Microsoft Compress archives

Open ci-macpaw opened this issue 14 years ago • 3 comments

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 301

d235j.1:

I'm not sure if Microsoft Compress archives work, but these sure don't:

http://cd.textfiles.com/gw2k42/WFW311/

The compressed files have extensions ending with _ . Expand.exe (also in that directory)
is normally used to extract them.

mscompress from ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/mscompress is supposed to work but
doesn't appear to.

ci-macpaw avatar Oct 08 '10 05:10 ci-macpaw

jeremyagost:

Update:
I compiled libmspack and the included test program "extract" was able to decompress
the files.

ci-macpaw avatar Dec 13 '10 22:12 ci-macpaw

jeremyagost:

The first four bytes of the file header (KWAJ) lead me to this: http://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack/doc/szdd_kwaj_format.html

From the header it looks like compression method 3, a combination of LZ and huffman.

This library looks like it can handle the samples:
http://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack/

ci-macpaw avatar Dec 13 '10 22:12 ci-macpaw

paracelsus:

Yeah, these seem to be entirely unsupported. This should definitely be fixed.

ci-macpaw avatar Oct 11 '10 12:10 ci-macpaw