filelist.txt and the autoupdate directory

[madpeople]

I've been playing around with making a tool for downloading and installing mods (think similar to synaptic package manager in linux, only not as well written or as many features like the dependancy managment).

With uninstalling mods, I thought it interesting to be able to pull files from the AU server since some of them change during a FAZ release, and restoring backups would restore ones which may be incompatable with the new release.

I had a look at http://autoupdate.alleg.net/autoupdate/game/filelist.txt , but it doesn't appear to be a plain text file, I'm wondering what the format of it is?

[pkk]

It's called Lempel-Ziv...

Use expand cmd-line tool:

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expand filelist.txt filelist_.txt

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490903.aspx

All files on AU are compressed by using Lempel-Ziv (compress.exe).

[madpeople]

ty
format appears to be

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YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss SIZE_BYTES C_R_C_32 filename.ext

size bytes is padded with leading zeros, CRC may be inverted

I'm guessing the flavour of LZ isn't LZMA? That's the one I chose to use for my tool, if it's not then I guess I will just try invoking the cmd line tool if I can't find a pre-implemented java version.

p.s. I don't think all the files it talks about are compressed, there are a bunch of .pngs which open fine in firefox...

[Imago]

stop dicking around in java, plug your joystick in, and get on IRC.