ci-macpaw

**paracelsus**: ``` With the architecture The Unarchiver uses, calling external programs is extremely inconvenient and not necessarily possible at all, so that is not really an option. ```

**fake.shawn2**: ``` WinAce makes a program called "Unace for Mac OS X 2.5" (http://www.winace.com/down.html). Presumably you could just include it and make an external command-line call to this program. ```

**paracelsus**: ``` The Unarchiver only supports ACE 1.0. ACE 2.0, which your file probably uses, is undocumented and there is no open implementation of it to use, and thus it...

**gireal**: ``` It turns out the file was encrypted, but The Unarchiver did not prompt for password or mention that it was an encrypted file. After seeing the known issue...

**mikerich88**: ``` DMGs have so many different combinations of compression and encryption and filesystems, and there is already a GPLv3 project for them: http://www.catacombae.org/dmgextractor/ ```

**adamjay**: ``` If there is anything I can do to help provide encouragement on this, as well as .sparsebundle support please let me know! Often I need to extract a...

**paracelsus**: ``` This is terribly complicated, but it would be a good feature. I'll need to be very bored some day to start working on it, though. ```

**d235j.1**: ``` There's also the full standard spec here: http://www.qic.org/html/qicstan.html (QIC-113). ```

**d235j.1**: ``` There seems to be some information on the .qic format here: http://www.fpns.net/willy/msbackup.htm ```

**[email protected]**: ``` I submit that the situation with .qic files is pretty widespread. While I was searching for a solution, I found a lot of folks with the same issue...