This topic was archived here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000fw_/https://www.zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?t=859

aluigi, posted Tue Apr 21, 2015 12:54 pm (4701)

---

In case you want to see how easy is to extract the TAR archives with quickbms:
http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/tar.bms

It automatically supports any compressed TAR archive (gzip, bzip2, compress and lzma/xv).

From quickbms 0.6.3 there will be support for octal and binary conversions so that will be no longer necessary to use a function like in the script.

HaxZen, posted Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:15 pm (4706)

---

Thanks

TAR archives >>> for games ???

aluigi, posted Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:22 pm (4707)

---

I guess probably almost no games use compressed tar archives, even the linux ones.
It's just a script I made for fun and for my collection.
I guess the scripts are useful also to have a practical example of the file formats because reading the specifics often is not enough or they are not 100% correct.

HaxZen, posted Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:29 pm (4718)

---

I realized
Thank you very much ....