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Re: Compact Pro

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On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 12:31:21 PM UTC+10, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In the 1990s, I registed my copy of Compact Pro and used it extensively
> for Mac file compression. Besides firing up an emulator to run an
> extractor, anyone know how to decompress the .cpt files it made?

> Old Mac and DOS binaries, but I was hoping for something I could run on
> Linux (preferred) or NetBSD.

try this, it says it supports compact pro:
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/compress/macutils.tar.gz

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 by: Eli the Bearded - Sat, 17 Apr 2021 04:58 UTC

In comp.compression, firstname lastname <nmtpycjz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 12:31:21 PM UTC+10, Eli the Bearded wrote:
>> Old Mac and DOS binaries, but I was hoping for something I could run on
>> Linux (preferred) or NetBSD.
> try this, it says it supports compact pro:
> http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/compress/macutils.tar.gz

Says it does, but apparently not. It didn't compile out of the box,
because some variables were declared 'extern' and 'static', so I
dropped the statics, eg:

< static char *lzh_pointer;

> char *lzh_pointer;

But it just gives me CRC errors. These files do decompress with the DOS
program I have (but then I get DOS names out, with long filenames
shortened with tildes), so I don't believe the files are corrupt as a
CRC might imply.

Oh well. Thanks for the effort. I may find a use for other things in
that package.

Elijah
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Re: Compact Pro

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Subject: Re: Compact Pro
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> But it just gives me CRC errors. These files do decompress with the DOS
> program I have (but then I get DOS names out, with long filenames
> shortened with tildes), so I don't believe the files are corrupt as a
> CRC might imply.

I looked at the DOS unpacker and the macutils sources and they look very close and should work OK. I could debug the issue if you provide some CompactPro archives to test.

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Subject: Re: Compact Pro
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 by: Eli the Bearded - Sun, 8 Aug 2021 06:20 UTC

In comp.compression, LLG <tanarriscourge@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> But it just gives me CRC errors. These files do decompress with the DOS
>> program I have (but then I get DOS names out, with long filenames
>> shortened with tildes), so I don't believe the files are corrupt as a
>> CRC might imply.
>
> I looked at the DOS unpacker and the macutils sources and they look
> very close and should work OK. I could debug the issue if you provide
> some CompactPro archives to test.

Ooo. That's exciting.

Sure:

https://qaz.wtf/tmp/compactpro/

Eight files of various sizes and content.

Elijah
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Re: Compact Pro

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> Eight files of various sizes and content.

That's easy. Replace the entire table in crc/zip.c with the normal one starting with 0x77073096 (easily found online).

I also made a Python script to extract the archives.

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 by: Eli the Bearded - Mon, 9 Aug 2021 01:10 UTC

In comp.compression, LLG <tanarriscourge@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Eight files of various sizes and content.
> That's easy. Replace the entire table in crc/zip.c with the normal one
> starting with 0x77073096 (easily found online).

I found that table here http://www.mrob.com/pub/comp/crc-all.html

Tricksy thing that macutils source. crc/zip.c is a generated file but
the makefile doesn't make that clear. When I did "rm *.o; make" in
the crc directory, it built makecrc first and overwrote my changes
to zip.c, producing a libcrc.a that was still broken. I thought I
might have forgotten to save the changes when everything worked
exactly as before.

$ diff -u makefile.orig makefile
--- makefile.orig 2021-08-08 18:06:24.871687850 -0700
+++ makefile 2021-08-08 18:06:45.539250712 -0700
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
fi
clean:
- -rm -f $(CRCC) $(CRCO) libcrc.a makecrc makecrc.o
+ -rm -f $(CRCO) libcrc.a makecrc makecrc.o
$(CRCC): makecrc
- ./makecrc
+ echo NOT RUNNING ./makecrc
makecrc: makecrc.o
cc -O -o makecrc makecrc.o
$

> I also made a Python script to extract the archives.

With a working CRC this tool seems pretty good. Thanks for the pointer.

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Compact Pro

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 by: Eli the Bearded - Mon, 5 Apr 2021 02:31 UTC

In the 1990s, I registed my copy of Compact Pro and used it extensively
for Mac file compression. Besides firing up an emulator to run an
extractor, anyone know how to decompress the .cpt files it made?

I've checked here already:

http://www.cyclos.com/compactpro.htm

Old Mac and DOS binaries, but I was hoping for something I could run on
Linux (preferred) or NetBSD.

Elijah
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