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- --------A-DWC-?-----------------------------
-
- The DWC archives seem to be a relict from ancient computing times - I've
- never seen any program that dealt with them or could create them. They
- are yet included in this compilation for reasons I don't know. But maybe
- one of you stumbles over such a file, he might find this documentation
- helpful. The DWC archives consist of single file entries with one
- archive trailer. The archive entries seem to be at the start of the
- archive, but maybe they are stored at the end of the archive, before the
- trailer. Each file header has the following format :
-
- OFFSET Count TYPE Description
- 0000h 13 char Name of the original file in ASCIIZ.
- 000Dh 1 dword Size of the original file
- 0011h 1 dword MS-DOS date and time of the original file
- 0015h 1 dword Size of the compressed file
- 0019h 1 dword Offset of compressed data in archive file
- 001Dh 3 byte reserved
- 0020h 1 byte Method :
- 1 - crunched
- 2 - stored
-
- The trailer at the end of each archive has the following format :
-
- OFFSET Count TYPE Description
- 0000h 1 word Length of trailer (=27)
- 0002h 1 word Size of the directory entries (=34)??
- 0004h 16 byte reserved
- 0014h 1 dword Count of the directory entries
- 0018h 3 char ID="DWC"
-
- EXTENSION:DWC??
- OCCURENCES:PC??
- PROGRAMS:DWC.EXE??
-