File Type Reference

HYP

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HYP Format
Intel byte order

Information from File Format List 2.0 by Max Maischein.

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This file has been authored in the style of the INTERxxy.* file list
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DISCLAIMER:  THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS".  I verify the information
contained in this list to the best of my ability, but I cannot be held
responsible for any problems caused by use or misuse of the information,
especially for those file formats foreign to the PC, like AMIGA or SUN file
formats. If an information it is marked "guesswork" or undocumented, you
should check it carefully to make sure your program will not break with
an unexpected value (and please let me know whether or not it works
the same way).

Information marked with "???" is known to be incomplete or guesswork.

Some file formats were not released by their creators, others are regarded
as proprietary, which means that if your programs deal with them, you might
be looking for trouble. I don't care about this.
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The Hyper archiver is a very fast compression program by P. Sawatzki and K.P.
Nischke, which uses LZW compression techniques for compression. It is not very
widespread - in fact, I've yet to see a package distributed in this format.

OFFSET              Count TYPE   Description
0000h                   1 byte   ID=1Ah
0001h                   2 char   Compression method
                                 "HP" - compressed
                                 "ST" - stored
0003h                   1 byte   Version file was compressed by in BCD
0004h                   1 dword  Compressed file size
0008h                   1 dword  Original file size
000Ch                   1 dword  MS-DOS date and time of file (see table 0009)
0010h                   1 dword  CRC-32 of file
0014h                   1 byte   MS-DOS file attribute
0015h                   1 byte   Length of filename
                                 ="LEN"
0016h               "LEN" char   Filename

EXTENSION:HYP
OCCURENCES:PC
PROGRAMS:HYPER.EXE