		       extractor for pak-archieves and media converter
	               ===============================================	
			                   (c) by Jochaim Schiele 2001

License for using this tool:
============================
	                                
  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
  
  Copyright (C) 2001   Joachim Schiele <js@dune2.de>

Quick install:
==============

It should be easy to get this tools compiled with Debian/GNU linux.
To build this tools i used debian 2.2 r3 stable and it's tested successfully
with it.

  - make clean
  - make

Recommend/needed:
=================

  - gcc
  - libpng and libpng-dev (apt-get install libpng2 libpng2-dev)

What's currently working:
=========================

  - extract pak files
  - convert cps files to png
  - convert shp files to png

Known bugs and limitations:
===========================

  - very lousy decode algorithm so images aren't decoded correctly.
  - not able to convert all the shp-files cause of some unknown fields
  - some shp-images need (lf- correction) linefeed i call this and some don't
    but i can't find a strict rule for this. ;P It seems as if it's a random
    rule which produces this output?
  - if you get some problems with compiling this, please conntact me and write
    down everything you did to get this problem.

Thanks to this people:
======================

* Lutz Sammer <Johns98@web.de> , developer of FreeCraft <www.freecraft.org>
* Christian Reitwiessner (KCN) <christian@reitwiessner>, for his great job 
  writing me the decode algorithm with the cnc-specs
* Olaf van der Spek <Spek@XCC.TMFWeb.NL> for his sample decode80 code 
  and usefull tips
* and to all people from ircnet from channel #c who helped me ;-)
