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1996-09-03
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--------A-HA--------------------------------
HA files (not to be confused with HamarSoft's HAP files [3]) contain a
small archive header with a word count of the number of files in the
archive. The constituent files stored sequentially with a header
followed by the compressed data, as is with most archives.
The main file header is formatted as follows:
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 2 char ID='HA'
0002h 1 word Number of files in archive
Every compressed file has a header before it, like this :
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 1 byte Version & compression type
0001h 1 dword Compressed file size
0005h 1 dword Original file size
0009h 1 dword CCITT CRC-32 (same as ZModem/PkZIP)
000Dh 1 dword File time-stamp (Unix format)
? ? char ASCIIZ pathname
? ? char ASCIIZ filename
????h 1 byte Length of machine specific information
? byte Machine specific information
Note that the path separator for pathnames is the 0FFh (255) character.
The high nybble of the version & compression type field contains the
version information (0=HA 0.98), the low nybble is the compression type:
(Table 0012)
HA compression types
0 "CPY" File is stored (no compression)
1 "ASC" Default compression method, using a sliding
window dictionary with an arithmetic coder.
2 "HSC" Compression using a "finite context [sic]
model and arithmetic coder"
14 "DIR" Directory entry
15 "SPECIAL" Used with HA 0.99B (?)
Machine specific information known:
1 byte Machine type (Host-OS)
1 = MS DOS
2 = Linux (Unix)
? bytes Information (currently only file-attribute info)
EXTENSION:HA
OCCURENCES:PC, Linux
PROGRAMS:HA
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