I''m interested in using a pak file system... where all my resources are stored in a large file and can be extracted and what not just like a Quake PAK file... I would like to just use the PAK files that quake uses to save time so I don''t have to write my own program to do the same job... does anyone know where I can find PAK file specifications or know what everything in a PAK file means??

Try www.wotsit.org

The PAK files in quake 3 is zip files, rename them to zip and you can extract things.

So if you want q3 style PAKs, you have to make a zip program...or download a free zip libary.