UNPACK(L)

NAME
unpack - Macintosh file de-archiver

SYNOPSIS
unpack [ - options ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION
unpack takes the specified Macintosh MacBinary archive specified in file (or standard input if none is specified) and extracts the files it contains subject to the options specified. The program will also accept the data fork of the archive.

OPTIONS
In the absence of any options, unpack takes the specified archive and silently extracts the file(s) it contains into MacBinary format, giving the output files ".bin" extensions and placing them in the current working directory. Subdirectories are created for embedded folders.

-3  Write files in fork format (.info, .data and .rsrc files)

-f  As -3, but empty data and rsrc files are not created

-r  Write resource forks only (.rsrc files)

-d  Write data forks only (.data files)

-u  As -d, but the codes for CR and LF are interchanged

-a  Write files in AUFS format. This option is only valid if the program is compiled with AUFS support. The current directory must be a valid AUFS folder.

-l  List every file extracted (and every directory/folder created etc.)

-v  Like -l, but more verbose (Implies -l)

-i  Do not extract, give information only (Implies -l)

-q  Ask the user for every file/folder whether it should be extracted (implies -l)

BUGS
As this is a beta release, there may still be some problems. Archives that are password protected, multi-file archives, and files archived using Stuffit Deluxe's compression methods 6 or 8 (Fixed Huffman and Bigram compression) are not dealt with.

AUTHOR
Dik T. Winter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl)

Parts of the code are based on codes from: Steve Davies, Casper H.S. Dik, Jim McKie, Mark G. Mendel, Haruhiko Okumura, Joe Orost, Samuel H. Smith, Yooichi Tagawa, Spencer W. Thomas, Ken Turkowski, Allan G. Weber, James A. Woods and Haruyasu Yoshizaki.