PackIt

From Just Solve the File Format Problem
(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
(Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Archiving |extensions={{ext|pit}} |released=1986 }} '''PackIt''' was for a time in the mid-1980s the leading archiver for the Maci...")
 
Line 3: Line 3:
 
|subcat=Archiving
 
|subcat=Archiving
 
|extensions={{ext|pit}}
 
|extensions={{ext|pit}}
 +
|wikidata={{wikidata|Q7122860}}
 
|released=1986
 
|released=1986
 
}}
 
}}
Line 15: Line 16:
 
* [http://www.network172.com/MacHistory/Packit/ PackIt page with source code]
 
* [http://www.network172.com/MacHistory/Packit/ PackIt page with source code]
 
* [http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/Resources/The.MacShrinkIt.Project/ARCHIVES.TXT Archive format info, including PackIt]
 
* [http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/Resources/The.MacShrinkIt.Project/ARCHIVES.TXT Archive format info, including PackIt]
* [http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/compress/macutils.tar.gz Mac file converter utility for Linux]
+
* [[macutil]] → macunpack
  
 
[[Category:Macintosh]]
 
[[Category:Macintosh]]

Revision as of 15:10, 25 February 2020

File Format
Name PackIt
Ontology
Extension(s) .pit
Wikidata ID Q7122860
Released 1986

PackIt was for a time in the mid-1980s the leading archiver for the Macintosh platform, until it was eclipsed by StuffIt.

Originally an archiver which merely appended multiple files into one file with no compression, it later added compression, but when StuffIt came out, that program compressed files better, so it became more popular. Encryption was also supported, but not much used.

As with most Mac-specific archiving systems, PackIt stored the Resource Fork of the files along with the regular file data (data fork).

Links

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Toolbox