[openbeos] Re: Package Format Notes and Test Files

Ryan Leavengood wrote:

Tag Names Expanded
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* File Header

AlB: ???
PhIn: ???
FVer: File Version
AFla: ???
FSiz: File Size
COff: Catalog? Offset (gives a file offset where the FldI section begins) AOff: Attribute? Offset (gives a file offset where the PkgA section begins) 
FldI: Folder Install?, Field Info?
FDat: File Data?
PkgA: Package attributes?
* License Information

Lic?: Has a License
LicP: License Pointer? (after this tag the file name for the license file on the host is stored)
Don't quote me on it, because I never actually looked at the source code for Software Valet, but I believe that AlB and PhIn may be related to BeDepot, Be's source for third party software that was killed off shortly after I started working there. Lic and LicP are almost certainly licensing information that would have been issued to a person that purchased the software from BeDepot, and linked to the registration database that had been @ Be. Unless someone wants to create a new BeDepot like software repository and registration database (not a bad idea now that I think about it) I think these fields can probably be ignored. Testing them with zero/null values might reveal any other purposes. 

Hopefully this email is more signal than noise...
Raymond

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