[Cialug] Determining File Format

[Nathan C. Smith]

In the pc world, Arj and arc were other compression tools available back
then.  I'm betting on expand though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Bailey [mailto:jcbailey at code0.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:25 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Determining File Format



Not a ZIP.. Doesn't have the PK header. I tried LZH also, but no go. File
has no idea (just says data) Strings returns the following:

http://code0.net/~jcbailey/appcfg.dat

http://code0.net/~jcbailey/appcfg.da~


APPCFG.DAT
# App
lication
figur
a Fil
NOTE:
_Name8
 is the
8-cha
er a
used by
GemReg.
PxIf
t pre
gnta,Pm e at C
 "GEMPAK
" do
ak (`x
#gool
dg@)
V1qY2
L1234567
zaFp
AMO
ql 0
9/27/99
lOpSy
FILES
Wm/d
/ebc
ompB(


The uncompressed version:

#
# Application Configuration Data File
#
# NOTE:  Appl_Name8 is the 8-character application name used by GemReg.
#        If its not present, GemReg uses the first 8 characters of
#        Appl_Name, which can get ugly -- "GEMPAK -" does not make
#        a good application name; hence the creation of Appl_Name8.  dg
#
#
#                   1         2
#          1234567890123456789012
#
#
Appl_Name =AMOPAK Rel 09/27/99
Appl_Name8=AMOPAK
Appl_Ver  =3.05.02
OpSys_Ver =2.5.12
TEMPFILES =200
RAMFILES  =500
Util_01   =/ram/deldir.ldm
Util_02   =/hd/rads/sys/ebcomp.ldm
[[Garbage Below Here]]




On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 15:53 -0500, Morris Dovey wrote:
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Jonathan Bailey
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:03 PM
> Subject: [Cialug] Determining File Format
> 
> | 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).
> 
> Jonathan...
>  
> You might give LZH and Phil Katz's PKUNZIP (MS-DOS utilities) a try. 
> LZH was also available on some *nix systems, if I recall correctly.
> 
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USA
> http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html
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