Container File

[starzboy]

Hello

Today we see a lot of applications which use the container file.

How does this container file work ?

We have many files and some folders with files in them, if i need to create a container to store them, how does it work ?

Does it have a fixed header whihc has the file names and sizes ?

Please shed some light on this

[0xFF]

Can you show me an example of "Container File" ?

[Teddy Rogers]

Something like .pak?

Ted.

[starzboy]

anything... like zip, rar

how does a zip file store so many files inside it, how does it remember the file names, directory names, etc...

[Teddy Rogers]

Sounds like you need the technical specifications of the ZIP format. I think 6.3.2 is the latest version to work from if you plan on using ZIP...

.ZIP_File_Format_Specification.txt

Ted.

[0xFF]

I bet they have their own encoding/decoding scheme for this kind of thing, if you're good with math you could come up with an idea to shrink a binary with a specific encoding method.

[Departure]

I guess in the basic sence of the word "container" a resource could be counted as a container, it is stored with the application or by its self, easy to see whats in it easy to extract files from the resource..

I guess another form of a contain could be basically a bunch of files binded together with infomation at what address the files bytes start and finish.

all these "crypters" around these days use this method of compressing and storing in a "stub" which could also be defined as a container.

I guess what im trying to say is the word "container" is very broad when talking programming, it could mean anything really.