What files can QAZ v3.60a recognize? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- QAZ can recognize and list the contents of the following archive and compressed file formats: 7PLUS files AMG v2.2 (AMG and AMGC) ARC family of archivers (ARC, Crunch, PAK, PKARC/PKPAK, etc..) ARJ v2.41a CoDec v3.10 COM-Pak v1.2 executable-libraries [1] Compact-Pro Central-Point Shrink Crush v1.0 [2] Disk Doubler DWC vA5.01 Flash v1.00 FOXSQZ (aka DOSSQZ) 1.6i GNU-Zip files HA v0.99B Hamarsoft HAP v3.14e HPack v0.79a0 Hyper v2.6 JAYAR Systems JRchive v1.02 Knowledge Dynamics libraries LHARC family of archives (AR, LARC, LHA, LHARC, PUT, SAR) Limit v1.2 MDCD v1.0 archives Novosielski libraries (ie, LBR files) PackIt I archives Quantum archives v0.93 Queasy v1.2 RAR archives (v1.40 and 1.50 formats) ReeveSoft Freeze v1.0 ShrinkIt (aka NuFX) SonArc files [3] Splint files v2.1 Squeeze files (aka SQ, SQPC etc.) Squeeze-It (.SQZ) archives SQWEZ (aka SQWEZER) archives Stuff-It archives UltraCompressor II (release 2) archives [4] Unix tape archives (.tar files) XEQ v1.6 executable-libraries [1] Zi-Lite (aka ZPACK) archives ZIP family of archivers (PKZIP, Info-Zip, Shrink etc.) ZOO archives QAZ can recognize many self-extracting (DOS and Mac) forms of the above archive formats. QAZ can also recognize but not list the following formats, either because no original file info is saved, or because the information is encoded: AIN archives Diet v1 files (non-exectuable) Disk Masher files (an Amiga disk-image format) KBoom v1 Microsoft Compress v1.00 PGP v2 binaries Packit II and III archives PowerPacker files Slim files Unix Compress v4 Unix Freeze v2 Voof (aka Moof) files Yabba files Notes: [1] Executable-libraries are DOS executables which contain smaller executables (usually .COM files). The executable can be run, telling it which inner program to run. The concept resembles utilities which can run a program from within an .ARC file, for instance. [2] Crush creates uncompressed archives which are then stored in other archive formats to achieve unit compression (usually as arcname.CRU). QAZ can list extracted Crush files. [3] SonArc is a specialized compressor for sound files. Not all .SNC files will be recognized by QAZ. [4] QAZ can no longer list .UC2 archives for technical reasons. QAZ cannot list files or archives within other files or archives, as in imbedded archives or .tar.Z files. BinHex and AR7 files are no longer recognized by QAZ as of v3.30a. Graphics file formats are no longer recognized by QAZ as of v2.60a. Many compressed disk formats like TeleDisk, Disk-Express, etc. are no longer recognized. File types with vague or no header information such as HUF, GAS, RLE, TCC, or TTCOMP are not recognized by QAZ. Moof and Voof seem to have some bugs that prevent it from generating consistent files. QAZ does not list ASCII text archive formats like SHAR or FPACK. Version numbers given signify the most recent version of the archiver that QAZ has been tested with, and not nec. any incompatabilities. Sometimes names are deceiving: some LZH and ZIP files are labelled as ICE or PAK files: they are not separate archive formats. SDN (Shareware Dist- ribution Network) files are actually PAK or ARJ files. An aside is that while testing QAZ's recursive search feature (-UR) I discovered that some applications on my hard drive stored files in ARC archives using the "OMB" extention. Note also that some archivers are in the same "family", such as LARC, LHARC (aka LHA), AR, SAR and PUT; or ARC, PKARC/PKPAK and PAK. Another point of confusion are utilities with similar names: ReeveSoft Freeze for Windows is not the same as Unix Freeze, and HA is not related to Hamarsoft HAP. Squeeze is *not* SQWEZER or Squeeze-It!, and FOXSQZ is not Squeeze-It! (although both have the .SQZ extention). Shrink is not the same as ShrinkIt, etc...