Simple Archive Format

March 10, 2021 ยท View on GitHub

SAF is an archive format designed to be easy and fast to parse. It can be used as a ramdisk format for hobby OSes, being a simpler alternative to other formats like tar and cpio.
Its features include:

  • Easy to parse
  • Supports up to 256 letter file and directory names
  • Supports archive sizes up to 4 GB
  • Optional compression using other programs

Build Instructions

Clone the repository to an empty folder, and run make

Specifications

Please see SPECS.md