Extract Packages is a tiny little tool to extract packages from a NCK backup file. This makes it possible for you to erase the card and still upload a single package of the original card, if necessary. Very nice especially for MP120 owners with FilePad and Notion and lot's of demos in their internal RAM. Now you can restore only FilePad or Notion and not all the other stuff.
The format of the backup is not as simple as the package-format of the Newton. It takes me some time to get Extract Packages fully working.
To use Extract Packages; start it and open a backup (card or internal memory) in your NCK folder. Extract Packages will scan the backup and present you a file selector for every package it found. You may save the packages where you want. The filename may help you to identify a package - it's the internal name of the package.
Starting with version 1.1 Extract Packages is capable of recoding a package! This means, that Extract Packages produces a readable text output of all frames, arrays, etc. of a package. But the absolute highlight is the feature to decode the P-Code of packages!!! Extremly nice for programmers, who lost one of there sources. Programmers may move the “NTK Definitions” file from the NTK into the Extract Packages directory, Extract Packages will use it for recoding.
Version 1.1 is no longer a fat binary. There is no need for speed in Extract Packages, but the size of the programm doubles in a fat binary.