ACE file formatEdit

The ACE file format can be decompressed on Mac OS X using the freeware (but closed-source) unace port available from the WinAce website. At the time of writing the latest version (2.5) is not a Universal Binary but can run on Intel-eqipped machines under the Rosetta compatibility layer. In my tests unace reproducibly exited with segmentation faults but only after completing the listing/extraction operations, so the tool is usable despite the flaw.

Usage

UNACE v2.5     Copyright by ACE Compression Software       Nov 16 2003 22:54:41
(Mac OS X)     ported to the Mac by Kolja Koischwitz

Usage:
  UNACE <command> [-<sw1> ...] <archive> [<base_dir>\] [<files>/@<filelist>]

<Commands>                          t  Test archive integrity
  e  Extract files                  v  List archive (verbose)
  l  List archive                   x  Extract files with full path

<Switches>               (default)                                (default)
  c[-]  Show comments         (+)   p<pass>  Set password
  f[-]  Full path matching    (-)   y[-]     Assume yes on all queries (-)
  o[-]  Overwrite files       (-)

  x<files/@list>  Exclude <files> or files in <list> from process

See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_%28file_format%29