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* [http://lefteous.totalcmd.net/tc/totalsqx_content_eng.htm Total SQX plugin for Total Commander file manager]
 
* [http://lefteous.totalcmd.net/tc/totalsqx_content_eng.htm Total SQX plugin for Total Commander file manager]
 
* [http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1067 Some discussion of SQX]
 
* [http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1067 Some discussion of SQX]
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== Software ==
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* [https://www.speedproject.com/download/old/ Squeez 5]
  
 
== Sample files ==
 
== Sample files ==

Revision as of 17:09, 16 April 2021

File Format
Name SQX
Ontology
Extension(s) .sqx
Released 1999[1]

SQX is an open-source archive format developed by Sven Ritter, Rainer Nausedat[1], and SpeedProject. It seems to have been created as part of the development of its primary implementation, a program called "Squeez", which originated in 1993 as a utility for manipulating common archive formats, with no format of its own.[2] (See Squeeze for a list of formats with similar names.)

The source code download includes a text file giving file format details. The source code is archived as a .sqx file itself, but fortunately an SQX extractor is also included as a standalone Windows .exe. (Bad luck for users of any non-Windows platform, though.)

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Identification

ASCII "-sqx-" appears at offset 7. Though this is reminiscent of LHA compression identifiers, SQX is not closely related to LHA.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Specification
  2. https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/squeez.zip (Squeez 1.1), "About" menu in main program
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