pakextract ---------- pakextract is a small tool to extract the contents of a Quake II pak file into the current directory. Usage: ./pakextract /path/to/pakfile.pak Only Quake II paks are supported. Other pak formats may work but it's untested and unsupported. ------------------------------------------------------- The Quake II Pak File Format ---------------------------- A Quake II pak file consists of 3 parts: - Header - Directory - Data The header is written right after the start of the file and consists of 3 parts in the following order: - A 4 byte identification string "PACK" (in ASCII) - A 4 byte integer value defining the offset to the directory in bytes - A 4 byte iteger giving the length of the directory in bytes. Since every directory entry is 64 bytes long this value modulo 64 must be 0: (dir_length % 64) == 0; The directory can be anywere in the file but most times it's written to the end. In consists of datablocks, written one after the other without any space between them. A directory entry is 64 bytes long has entries in the following order: - A 56 byte file name (in ASCII) - A 4 byte value defining the position if the file as an offset in bytes to the start of the pak file. - A 4 byte integer giving the length of the file in bytes.