unmakeself is a program for extracting Makeself archives without
having to run the self-extracting shell script.
unmass is a tool to extract game archives. It supports the following archive
types: Crimson Land, Baldur's Gate 2, Civilization 4, Doom (WADs), Dune 2,
Etherlords 2, Final Fantasy 7 and 8, Flashpoint, Knights of Xentar, Metal Gear
Solid (DARs), Moorhuhn 2 and 3, Megaman Legends, Oni, Operation Flashpoint,
Princess Maker 2, Quake 1, RollCage, Swine, Unreal Tournament umods, Virtua
Fighter bitmaps, MEA exe's, and some economy file formats.
This is the set of GNU shar utilities. This port installs them
with the letter "g" prepended to their names, to avoid conflict
with the FreeBSD base system. The uudecode and uuencode commands
are omitted (BSD versions are present in the base system). The
shar utilities deal with shar files, so-called shell archives, which
are scripts suitable for transmission by e-mail or Usenet.
When a shar file is executed, the files it contains are unpacked
without the need for any software other than the shell itself and
sed. Because they are scripts, shell archives from strangers should
be read before executing them, to check for harmful commands.
synopses from the info pages:
* gmail-files: Send files to remote site.
* gmailshar: Make and send a shell archive.
* gremsync: Synchronize remote directory trees using e-mail.
* gshar: Make a shell archive.
* gunshar: Explode a shell archive.
Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum
compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead,
it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance,
compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster
for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to
100% bigger.
Snzip is one of command line tools using snappy. This supports five types of
file formats:
framing-format,
old framing-format,
SNZ format,
snappy-java format
and snappy-in-java format.
The default format is framing-format.
Squeeze is a modern and advanced archive manager for the Xfce Desktop
Environment. Its design adheres to the Xfce philosophy, which basically
means Squeeze is designed to be both fast and easy to use.
Szip performs data compression/decompression. It uses a limited order
sort transform. This transformation is related to the Burrows-Wheeler
transformation used in block sorting compression methods. The
difference is a fast, deterministic behaviour in time at some
compression loss.
The tardy program is a tar post-processor. It may be used to manipulate the
file headers in tar archive files in various ways.
The reason the tardy program was written was because the author wanted to
"spruce up" tar files before posting them to the net, mostly to remove
artifacts of the development environment, without introducing more.
The tardy program was designed to allow you to alter certain characteristics
of files after they have been included in the tar file. Among them are:
* change file owner (by number or name)
* change file group (by number or name)
* add directory prefix (e.g. dot)
* change file protections (e.g. from 600 to 644)
Note that all of these affect ALL files in the archive.