packtool

Rust's tooling to write packed objects. Objects that can be packed into specific serialization format of fixed size.

Requires Rust 1.96.0 or newer.

Example

bitcoin block header

a simple example of the bitcoin block header format parsing is available in the examples directory.

$ cargo run --example bitcoin

tar

a very simplified implementation of the TAR archive file format is implemented in the examples directory.

$ tar -cf example.tar README.md Cargo.toml
$ cargo run --example tar
compressed file: README.md (967 bytes)
compressed file: Cargo.toml (885 bytes)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT OR Apache-2.0 dual license.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in packtool by you, shall be licensed as MIT OR Apache-2.0 dual license, without any additional terms or conditions.