Packit
file format, tool
A file format used on the Apple Macintosh to represent collections of Mac files, possibly Huffman compressed. Packing many small related files together before a MacBinary transfer or a translation to BinHex 4.0 is common practice.
(1994-11-30)
Read Also:
- Pack of lies
noun 1. a completely false story, account, etc
- Packman
[pak-muh n] /ˈpæk mən/ noun, plural packmen. 1. a peddler.
- Packrat
[pak-rat] /ˈpækˌræt/ verb (used with object), pack-ratted, pack-ratting. Informal. 1. to save in the manner of a pack rat: I’m looking through the stuff my grandpa pack-ratted away in the attic. noun 1. Also called trade rat, wood rat. a large, bushy-tailed rodent, Neotoma cinerea, of North America, noted for carrying off small articles to […]
- Pack-rat
[pak-rat] /ˈpækˌræt/ verb (used with object), pack-ratted, pack-ratting. Informal. 1. to save in the manner of a pack rat: I’m looking through the stuff my grandpa pack-ratted away in the attic. noun 1. Also called trade rat, wood rat. a large, bushy-tailed rodent, Neotoma cinerea, of North America, noted for carrying off small articles to […]
- Pack-rolling
noun, Metalworking. 1. the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.