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.
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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.
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