TITLE

  XPK 2.4 - 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 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
  Matthias Scheler         tron@uni-paderborn.de
  Martin A. Blatter        blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
  ...and more.


DESCRIPTION

  XPK is an interfacing standard between applications and packer 
  libraries. Any XPK application can handle every XPK packer.
  Included applictaions: A (de)compressing file handler, a packing
  app-icon, command line packers, a LoadSeg() patch, adapted
  image displayer and movie player, and many more. Also included: 
  4 nice packers, 2 very safe encryptors, and some demonstration 
  libraries.

  
FILE NAMES

  xpk24usr.lha    -  User's package, contents see above
  xpk24dev.lha    -  Developer's package, for writing apps and libs


HOST NAME / DIRECTORY

  XPK can be found on the three currently working AmiNet sites 
  (the others are restructuring). It's in the util/pack/
  subdirectory. The sites are:

  Switzerland   amiga.physik.unizh.ch       pub/aminet/
  Scandinavia   ftp.luth.se                 pub/OS/amiga/
  USA           merlin.etsu.edu             pub/aminet/


DISTRIBUTABILITY

  XPK is copyrighted, but freely distributable. Some parts of XPK have
  a different legal status, mostly PD or GPL.