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diff --git a/system/acefile/README b/system/acefile/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..a214806300e35 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/acefile/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +acefile (extract ACE 1.0 and 2.0 archives) + +This single-file, pure python 3, no-dependencies implementation is +intended to be used as a library, but also provides a stand-alone +unace utility. As a mostly pure-python implementation, it is +significantly slower than native implementations, but more robust +against vulnerabilities. + +This implementation supports up to version 2.0 of the ACE archive +format, including the EXE, DELTA, PIC and SOUND modes of ACE 2.0, +password protected archives and multi-volume archives. It does not +support writing to archives. It is an implementation from scratch, +based on the 1998 document titled "Technical information of the +archiver ACE v1.2" by Marcel Lemke, using unace 2.5 and WinAce 2.69 by +Marcel Lemke as reference implementations. + +Unlike the standard unace, this is Free Software (BSD-licensed). |