> commandline dearchiver UNACE
>
> unace for Mac OS X is a port of the commandline tool unace, which is
> the uncompressing part of the excellent (but yet) closed source
> windows compression software WinACE. Its hard to beat compression
> results made it the preferred tool of many people on the net.
> After the port to x86 Linux now unace is finally available for Mac
> OS X and possibly other big endian plattforms!
[WinAce.com][1]
Found some 1.268 goodies archived eons ago, in .ace archives on the
PC-Wintel side for us Mac users. None of my currently extractors could
handle it so -here ya go
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DL #1: unace v2.5 (2003) Mac OS X PPC
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Compatibility
Architecture: PPC
PowerPC only for unace v2.5
> Use for malware distribution
>
> Since at least 2015, ACE archives have been used to deliver malware
> to victims by e-mail. This tactic was viable because popular
> archiving software was able to uncompress ACE archives, but support
> for the ACE format in security products such as mail filters, web
> content filters, and anti-virus software was generally weak.
>
> Security vulnerabilities
>
> In February 2019 several major security vulnerabilities were found
> in the unacev2.dll library which is used by WinRAR and other
> archiving products. Since WinACE support is discontinued, users are
> advised against opening ACE archives in WinRAR and possibly [other
> products][2] using this library. WinRAR stopped supporting ACE as of
> version 5.70, and similar products are following suit.
>
> ?Headsup: [ACE (compressed file format)][3] (Wikipedia)
[1]:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040725020112/http://www.winace.com/
[2]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/keka
[3]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_(compressed_file_format)
