PGNPack

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File Format
Name PGNPack
Ontology
Extension(s) .ppk
Released 1996
Not to be confused with PGMPAK.

PGNPack is a utility that compresses a PGN file to a special .PPK format. It was developed by Paul W. Onstad.

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PGN is a format that usually contains a record of one or more chess games.

The purpose of PGNPack is not immediately obvious, but part of it seems to be that the PPK file remains email-compatible (at least for small values of "email-compatible").

PGNPack is a Windows 3.x (GUI) program with a somewhat unusual command-line interface.

The "Version 1.0 (beta)" release may have been the only one.

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PPK files made by PGNPack v1.0-beta start with ASCII "@1.0 (beta)", followed by bytes 0x0d 0x0a.

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