[Cialug] Determining File Format

[Laith]

that is what it sounds like to me, not sure about the prog to decompress 
but the file name format does sound familiar

Tom Pohl wrote:
> 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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