On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 04:01:15PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > ACE: > > http://www.winace.com/ > > They provide some statically linked Linux-binary for unpacking > ACE-archives. If that file-format is not very secret, somebody might be > able to create free unpacking-software for ACE-files. But feel free to > negotiate with authors of WinAce.
Old versions of ACE came with the source for a simple unpacker. I believe the only things lacking are support for encrypted and multi-file archives. It works fine on Linux. It has the following license: -- UNACE-SOURCE v1.2b (extract-util) -- the source may be distributed and used, but I,Marcel Lemke, retain ownership of the copyrights to the source. --------------------------------------- I think this makes it non-free (it doesn't explicitly allow modifications), but it may help to figure out the algorithm. You can find it at http://wilma.vub.ac.be/~pdewacht/unace-1.2b.tar.gz Mvg, Peter De Wachter