[Cialug] Determining File Format

[Tom Pohl]

It sounds suspiciously like a setup in the old DOS/Win 3.11 days.  I 
believe it requires the dos program expand.exe to decompress it.

-Tom

On Aug 8, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Aaron Porter wrote:

> On 8/8/05, Jonathan Bailey <jcbailey at code0.net> wrote:
>> I'm attempting to determine the compression format. I'm guessing it's
>> pretty old (circa 90). The file extension is 'xx~' where xx is the 
>> first 2
>> letters of the extension. I have an example compressed and 
>> uncompressed
>> file, but cannot determine the format. It's not compress or gzip. 
>> Anybody
>> have any idea based on file extension? If you need an example file, I 
>> can
>> post one online (I only have the before and after - no compression
>> program).
>
> Does /usr/bin/file tell you anything useful?
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