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Jsummers: /* Sample files */ Re-updated samples link

2025-08-01T17:51:59Z

‎Sample files: Re-updated samples link

Jsummers: Undo revision 46550 by Dexvertbot (talk)

2025-08-01T17:51:30Z

Undo revision 46550 by Dexvertbot (talk)

Dexvertbot: Change telparia.com samples link to template

2023-12-28T02:55:01Z

Change telparia.com samples link to template

Taritta at 20:23, 25 October 2023

2023-10-25T20:23:43Z

Sembiance: Added sample files

2021-08-14T23:08:52Z

Added sample files

Jsummers: /* Specifications */

2021-02-18T14:56:05Z

‎Specifications

Jsummers: /* Software */

2021-01-30T15:04:10Z

‎Software

Jsummers: /* Format info */

2021-01-14T17:03:17Z

‎Format info

Jsummers at 17:51, 31 May 2020

2020-05-31T17:51:14Z

Marco at 09:44, 23 February 2016

2016-02-23T09:44:18Z

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 == Sample files ==
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/ha/
+* {{DexvertSamples|archive/ha}}
 == Links ==

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 == Software ==
 * {{CdTextfiles|swextrav4/swextrav4-3/arch/ha098.zip|HA 0.98}} (1993-01) - DOS binary
-* [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/ha0999.zip HA 0.999 beta] (1995-01) - DOS binary   source code (in a HA file)
+* [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/ha0999.zip HA 0.999 beta] (1995-01) - DOS binary + source code (in a HA file)
 * [https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/ha0999.tgz ha0999.tgz] - Unix port
 * [https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/compress/ha0999p-linux.tar.gz ha0999p-linux.tar.gz] - An early Linux port
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 == Sample files ==
-* {{DexvertSamples|archive/ha}}
+* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/ha/
 == Links ==

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 == Software ==
 * {{CdTextfiles|swextrav4/swextrav4-3/arch/ha098.zip|HA 0.98}} (1993-01) - DOS binary
-* [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/ha0999.zip HA 0.999 beta] (1995-01) - DOS binary + source code (in a HA file)
+* [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/ha0999.zip HA 0.999 beta] (1995-01) - DOS binary   source code (in a HA file)
 * [https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/ha0999.tgz ha0999.tgz] - Unix port
 * [https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/compress/ha0999p-linux.tar.gz ha0999p-linux.tar.gz] - An early Linux port
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 == Sample files ==
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/ha/
+* {{DexvertSamples|archive/ha}}
 == Links ==

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 bytes contain a [[CRC-32]] redundancy check.
-bytes contain the file timestamp.
+bytes contain the file date and time (unix timestamp).
 Next is the file pathname, null-terminated, then the filename, also null-terminated.

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 |released=1993
 }}
 '''HA''' is an archiver originally developed by Harri Hirvola for the (PC/MS) DOS platform, and later ported to Unix/Linux. It uses a compression method called HSC which is reportedly protected by patent, but since the pages mentioning this status are from as far back as 1995, the patent is likely to be expired by now.
 == Format info ==
 All multi-byte numeric quantities are [[Endianness|little-endian]].
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 * [[Konvertor]]
 * [{{SACFTPURL|pack|lgha11g.zip}} LGHA] - Optimized HA software for DOS. See also [[ARHANGEL]], for a related but incompatible format by the LGHA author.
 == Links ==

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 == Specifications ==
 * [https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/ha0999.tgz ha0999.tgz] → format - Covers the file structure
 == Software ==

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 Then 4 bytes comprise the compressed length, and 4 bytes comprise the uncompressed (original) length.
-bytes contain a [[CRC]] 32 redundancy check.
+bytes contain a [[CRC-32]] redundancy check.
 bytes contain the file timestamp.

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 |released=1993
 }}
+'''HA''' is an archiver originally developed by Harri Hirvola for the (PC/MS) DOS platform, and later ported to Unix/Linux. It uses a compression method called HSC which is reportedly protected by patent, but since the pages mentioning this status are from as far back as 1995, the patent is likely to be expired by now.
 ''HA'' is an archiver originally developed for the (PC/MS) DOS platform, and later ported to Unix/Linux. It uses a compression method called HSC which is reportedly protected by patent, but since the pages mentioning this status are from as far back as 1995, the patent is likely to be expired by now.
 == Format info ==
-All multi-byte numeric quantites are [[Endianness|little-endian]].
+All multi-byte numeric quantities are [[Endianness|little-endian]].
 The file header starts with "HA" (as ASCII characters).
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 One byte after that gives the length of the machine-specific information, followed by the bytes comprising this information, with the first byte specifying the information type.
 == Links ==
-* [http://www.filewatcher.com/d/FreeBSD/9.1-release/i386/ha-0.999b_1.tbz.28472.html Info and download]
+<!-- * [http://www.filewatcher.com/d/FreeBSD/9.1-release/i386/ha-0.999b_1.tbz.28472.html Info and download] -->
-* [http://terasaur.org/item/show/harri-hirvolas-ha-archiver-sources/4342 Another source for download]
+<!-- * [http://terasaur.org/item/show/harri-hirvolas-ha-archiver-sources/4342 Another source for download] -->
 * [http://manned.org/ha Man page]

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	* [http://terasaur.org/item/show/harri-hirvolas-ha-archiver-sources/4342 Another source for download]		* [http://terasaur.org/item/show/harri-hirvolas-ha-archiver-sources/4342 Another source for download]
	* [http://manned.org/ha Man page]		* [http://manned.org/ha Man page]
		+	* [[Konvertor]]