Zipguy - 2014/6/6 In case you are not familiar with SDX, I also have a page about ezsdx - a small frontend for sdx (which I've renamed to EasySDX) a page on my site all about SDX (and ML).
Even further, if you don't understand how to use SDX then you should read this excellent site , (or in pdf form)
An excerpt of my new page I've added to my site:
"from chat 6/4/2014 20:37:03 AM
[20:37] zipguy I've got a question. Is there any way, in Tkchat to modify the 'Google selection' right-click option (on Windoze)? [20:38] * zipguy not to 'Bing'! [20:42] zipguy Or is there anyway to change the menu that pops-up, and add command to it? [20:42] zipguy er, commands [21:13] kbk Of course there is. You have the source code.. [21:17] zipguy kbk All I have is tkchat.exe, not the source code, so I don't [21:17] kbk It's a starpack. Unwrap it [21:18] zipguy Ok I'll give it a try. Thanks kbk
From the sdx page at http://wiki.tcl.tk/3411
"sdx unwrap yourstarkit Extract the contents of a starkit into a file system. Creates a directory with the name file root starkit.vfs The directory must not already exist."
It does not make any mention of 'unwrap'ing a foobar.exe, of the type, starpack.
So I did search http://wiki.tcl.tk , looking for 'unwrap' and did not find any mention, that you can unwrap a starpack! It did take me a while to do that.
That got me into another couple of problems.
Some of them are unanswered... but most are solved!"
There's a lot more there for SDX lovers.
RLE (2014-06-06): Re. your first point above, if you run sdx with the "help" option, it will print out a list of commands and a short description of each.
So "not being aware" is as much "not bothering to ask" as anything else.
Re. unwrapping a starpack, that file is just a starkit attached to an executable in a single file. So it should have been fairly obvious that if you can unwrap a kit, and a starpack == exe+kit, that you can unwrap an pack.
Additionally, the sdx help has this as one of the line items:
mksplit Split starkit/starpack into head and tail files
Which if you test it, splits a pack into an exe and a kit. And so, using "mksplit" and then following with "unwrap" of the tail should have been reasonably obvious as well.
Was sdx designed to unwrap a pack, yes. Given what a pack is, it was designed to unwrap it, because it's just a kit in disguise.