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Subject: XPK 2.5 announcement
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From: Urban D. Mueller <umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch>
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Hi

here comes the XPK 2.5 announcement. As a side-note: Whenever someone
announces an upload to an AmiNet site (see below), you may want to
add the list of other sites to spare the net. Also, there's an identical
path on all mirrors now: pub/aminet/. So if someone announces a file
os20/wb/ToolManager.lha, the complete path is 
/pub/aminet/os20/wb/ToolManager.lha on all sites.

Now for XPK:

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TITLE
 
  XPK 2.5 - A generic compression package
 
 
AUTHORS
 
  Urban Dominik Mueller    umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
  Bryan Ford               bryanf@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com
  Peter Struijk            ddws0168@dutiws.tudelft.nl
  Christian von Roques     roques@karlsruhe.gmd.de
  Andre Beck               beck@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de
  Marc Zimmermann          zimmerma@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
  Kristian Nielsen         bombadil@diku.dk
  Torsten Juergeleit       bj030@aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de
  Matthias Scheler         tron@uni-paderborn.de
  Uwe Roehm                roehm@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de
  Martin A. Blatter        blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
  ...and more.
 
 
DESCRIPTION
 
  XPK is an interfacing standard between application programs and packer 
  libraries. Every XPK application program can pack data with any XPK
  packer.
  There are some applications bundled with this archive: 2 (de)compressing 
  filesystems, a packing app-icon, command line packers, a LoadSeg() patch, 
  an adapted image displayer, a movie player, a text viewer and many more. 
  All these can thus handle compressed data.
  Five packers are included in this package, plus two very safe encryptors
  and various demo or special purpose XPK libraries.
 
 
VERSION INFO
 
  This is only a subset of the changes, check the HISTORY file within.
 
  XPK 2.5
  - Distribution cleaned up
  - OVERVIEW and HISTORY documents added
  - Minor bug fixes in the master library
 
  SHRI 0.3
  - New packer (Shrink), higly optimized for compression, but slow.
 
  IMPL 1.0
  - Docs added
  - Version string added
 
  xPK 1.1
  - Docs written
  - Version string added
  - Now -e as well as -u supported for decomp
  - Bug with trying to pack nonexisting files removed
 
  xDrop 2.21
  - German doc added
  - Now keeps file attributes
  - Bug with long file names removed
 
  Most 1.31
  - New text viewer with XPK support
  - WB and keyboard interface, scrollbar
 
  XPK-Handler 1.0
  - Alternate compressing file handler
  - Compatible with XFH
 
  
FILE NAMES / HOST NAMES
 
  XPK can be found on all AmiNet anonymous FTP sites in the path
 
  /pub/aminet/util/pack/xpk25usr.lha        (the user's edition)
  /pub/aminet/util/pack/xpk25dev.lha        (the developer's extension)
  
  Currently AmiNet consists of:
 
  Switzerland  amiga.physik.unizh.ch  130.60.80.80  
  Switzerland  litamiga.epfl.ch       128.178.151.32
  Scandinavia  ftp.luth.se            130.240.16.3  
  Germany      ftp.uni-kl.de          131.246.9.95  
  Germany      ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de    130.149.17.7  
  Germany      ftp.th-darmstadt.de    130.83.55.75  
  USA          ftp.etsu.edu           192.43.199.20 
  USA          ftp.wustl.edu          128.252.135.4 
 
 
DISTRIBUTABILITY
 
  XPK is copyrighted, but freely distributable for non-commercial use. 
  Some parts of XPK have a different legal status, ie. PD, GPL or
  shareware.