Talk:Direct Access Archive

message: I can't find a formal specification for this file format anywhere, including the poweriso website. Is this a real format or just some proprietary file format used by some rarely used application? I can't even verify the "feature set" described in the writeup. --BWD (talk) 18:23, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this a real format?

message: Can we get an article on PowerISO, please? Geoffrey C Vargo 06:58, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article on PowerISO? 

message: PowerISO have added an utility that lets you convert .daa to .iso for linux —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.151.219.200 (talk) 13:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  .daa on linux 

message: There is a section about the advantages of the DAA format.  However, there are many disadvantages of this format as well, which are nowhere near as prominent in the article.  Perhaps we should create a disadvantages section as well, or , better still, remove advantage/disadvantage sections.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.44.82.1 (talk) 14:20, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased in favour of DAA format? 

message: An anonymous contributor added 7zip as a supporting program for DAA. I have found no evidence of that so removed it. --Voidvector (talk) 21:30, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You need to convert .daa to .iso first (e.g. with daa2iso) and then use 7zip to extract files from the .iso. -- Cordula's Web (talk) 18:39, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  7zip 

message: I Removed "Advanced" password protection + compression does not constitute it being "advanced"
Picer (talk) 16:40, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor Edit 

message: I support the merger. --Voidvector (talk) 06:47, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I oppose the merger as there is more than one program that uses the .daa file extension. --Vlsi0n (talk) 07:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Oppose, the article has too much information to merge into PowerISO CheesePlease NL (talk) 12:32, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: I added a section about the file structure, which is a zip compressed ISO image. The text file in Luigi Auriemma's daa2iso explains this and is used as a reference. The GPL licensed sources can also be used to verify this. If the reference should be formatted in some other way, please correct it.Otus (talk) 12:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: After studying the code, it looks like the file consists of a header, followed by a length table, followed by compressed chunks of data. Each is compressed individually, which provides a way to do random access. The tool supports zlib/inflate and lzma decompression. A password protection feature is indicated as well, seems to be a custom algorithm. Theultramage (talk) 09:16, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  File Structure 

message: "The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject." 
Could someone point it out to me?
Could this be outdated? 71.178.239.150 (talk) 04:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias? 

message: removed the links to an old third party Windows GUI because daa2iso on Windows has its own GUI
a recent version of the DAA format has substituited zlib with LZMA and has reduced the size of some 32 bit fields, this info could be added in the File Structure section  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.0.141.77 (talk) 19:17, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows GUI and new format