jac@yoko.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) (10/29/90)
Submitted-by: jac Posting-number: Volume 1, Administrivia: 17 I would like to thank Doug Gwyn and Peter da Silva for their help in developing the Apple Archive Format. ******************************************************************************** Apple Archive Format COPYRIGHT 1990 by Jonathan A. Chandross. All rights reserved. The AAF is a simple archive format designed for shipping around Apple source code. An archive consists of a series of lines. Each line is interpreted according to the first character of the line. The interpretations are: = the name of the unpacked file starting here - a source line to be unpacked into the current file + end of archive. Lines beginning with any other character are simply output to the console. A simple example of this format: From: reagan@ciavax.mil To: freeworld Subject: My first program. Here's some great code. Haven't had this much fun since I almost started WWIII. Ronbo. =helloworld.c -main() -{ - printf("Hello World\n"); -} =Read.Me -Test out a C compiler; just compile and execute. + All done. Ron ron@ciavax.mil This file would create the files "helloworld.c" and "Read.Me". When the archive was unpacked, all of the non-source and non-file-name lines would be output to the console until the '+' was encountered. Using '=' to specify a file name and '-' to specify a line of source allows a standard USENET or email file to be unpacked without removing any preamble or trailing information. The '+' at the end of the file indicates the end of an archive. Lines occurring past this point will not be processed at all. The '=' and "+" sentinels are due to Doug Gwyn. ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To get something posted to comp.sources.apple2, send it to: Internet: jac@paul.rutgers.edu UUCP: rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!jac Please mark comments that are not to be posted with "Not for Posting". Otherwise, I often can't tell. Jonathan A. Chandross Internet: jac@paul.rutgers.edu UUCP: rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!jac