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Yet another file format SQX

Fri, 03/30/2007 - 08:11 — Anonymous

Hi!

Would it be possible to add SQX as a new archive type to the already overwhelming list of supported types?

Thanks!

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Fri, 03/30/2007 - 08:20 — jbreland
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Re: Yet another file format SQX

I think I looked at this format in the past, but couldn't find a way to extract the files. In order to add support for any given format I need freely redistributable binary that can extract the files. I automate filetype detection and extraction with UniExtract, but with just a few exceptions all unpacking and extraction is done by the "helper" programs, such as 7-Zip. Do you happen to know of any utility that can do this?

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Fri, 03/30/2007 - 08:29 — jbreland
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Re: Yet another file format SQX

I'd like to add a little more to this. During development of any new version of UniExtract, I often come across various new formats that I'd like to support, utilities that may aid the process, etc. I keep an archive of everything that I find, both for later analysis in case I find new ways of doing something as well as to simply remind myself of what I'd looked at previously. I just looked through this collection and I did find some stuff related to SQX. Basically, it's the two files available for download here:
http://www.sqx-archiver.org/download.html

If I recall correctly (I'm not able to actually run or test any of these programs right now), I believe that UnSqueez.exe couldn't be used because it lacks any kind of support for command line parameters (as far as I could tell, anyway). This means I can't pass the name of the file that I want to be extracted, the output directory, etc. I also tried poking through the SQX SDK, as sometimes SDKs will come with example command line utilities, but in this case I couldn't find anything useful. I also found a number of third-party utilities in my search, but nothing that is freely redistributable.

So, if you (or anyone else) can suggest a way of doing this then I'd be happy to add support for it, but otherwise there's not much I can do at this time.

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