Hi:
I recently got interested in this, and can probably
tell you more than you want to know about the internal
file format. I even typed some of it up since its
not well documented.
See
If its a file on disk or CDrom you can get at it,
but if its compressed its pretty messy to try to browse.
I'm close to having a decompressor for the version
of *.qic produced by the MSBackUP that came with WinME.
Its easy to get a directory listing of a compressed or
uncompressed archive. If its text files you want to look at
(ie not binary data like a *.pdf) and you uncompress
the archive you can view it with most editors.
Hence my interest in a decompressor.
Given the way the compression works, they appear to
to blocks of compressed data in 30K segments. Its
possible to decompress a segment at a time so you don't
have a huge file lying around, but I haven't figure out
if there is a way to determine which segment contains
which file without decompressing it. The other problem
is that files cross segment boundries....
Will