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'''SQX''' is an open-source archiver developed by Sven Ritter and SpeedProject.
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'''SQX''' is an open-source archive format developed by Sven Ritter, Rainer Nausedat<ref name="spec" />, 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 utility for manipulating common archive formats, with no format of its own.<ref>https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/squeez.zip (Squeez 1.1), "About" menu in main program</ref> The terms ''Squeez'' and ''UnSqueez'' are used for some of the software and technology associated with SQX format. (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.)
 
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.)
 
The terms ''Squeez'' and ''UnSqueez'' are used for some of the software and technology associated with SQX format.
 
  
 
== Identification ==
 
== Identification ==
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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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== References ==
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Revision as of 07:44, 10 November 2020

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 utility for manipulating common archive formats, with no format of its own.[2] The terms Squeez and UnSqueez are used for some of the software and technology associated with SQX format. (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.)

Identification

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

Links

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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