PUT - Revision history

Jsummers at 15:36, 14 July 2026

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‎Format details

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‎Discussion

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‎Software: Delisted SHAID - Most good format ID tools support PUT, nothing special about this one

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‎Software: Delisted Ainviewer and MUP - They're just shells, and don't work that well with PUT anyway

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‎Software

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Release date

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‎Sample files

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‎Sample files

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Added sample files

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 PUT files with an .INS extension are treated specially by the "INSTALL" program that is used by, and distributed with, some versions of PUT/GET.
 == Discussion ==
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 ** {{CdTextfiles|nightowl/nopv10/035A/PUT200.ZIP|v2.00}} (1993-08-10)
 ** {{CdTextfiles|megarom/megarom4/UTILITY/ARCHIVE/PUT220.ZIP|v2.20}} (1993-09-09)
 ** {{CdTextfiles|megarom/megarom5/PROG/MISC/PUT310.ZIP|v3.10}} (1994-03-03)
 ** {{CdTextfiles|ftp.wwiv.com/pub/COMPRESS/PUT341.ZIP|v3.41}} (1995-01-01)
 ** {{CdTextfiles|nightowl/nopv17/001A/PUT343.ZIP|v3.43}} (1995-04-04)
 ** {{CdTextfiles|swextrav8/swextrav8-1/arch/put345.zip|v3.45}} (1996-01-01)
 ** [https://archive.org/details/msdos_festival_PUT345 v3.45 at Internet Archive]
 ** [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/put347.zip v3.47] (1998-01-01)
 * {{Deark}} (with option "<code>-zip</code>" or "<code>-opt lha:tolha</code>")

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 Official documentation of .PUT format is lacking, but it's clearly a variant of [[LHA]], and in some cases identical to LHA.
-Some versions (1.00, 2.00, 3.10) seem to use standard LHA format. Others (2.20, 3.41+) use a variant in which the 'h' in the compression ID field is changed to a capital 'Z'. If there are any other differences, they must be subtle. PUT has been observed to use methods 'lZ0', 'lZ1', and 'lZ5'.
+Some versions use standard LHarc/LHA format. Others use a variant in which the 'h' in the compression ID field is changed to a capital 'Z'. If there are any other differences, they must be subtle. PUT has been observed to use methods 'lZ0', 'lZ1', and 'lZ5'.
 == Identification ==

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 == Discussion ==
 The earliest known version of the software is 1.00, apparently released in early 1993. Technically, the ''file format'' used by v1.00, [[LHA|LHarc format]], was released around 1989. Confusing the matter further is that the software has copyright dates like "1990-1993", implying that there might have been versions before 1.00. But no good evidence of such versions has been found.
 == Format details ==

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 ** [https://archive.org/details/msdos_festival_PUT345 v3.45 at Internet Archive]
 ** [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/put347.zip v3.47] (1998-01-01)
 * {{Deark}} (with option "<code>-zip</code>" or "<code>-opt lha:tolha</code>")

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 ** [https://archive.org/details/msdos_festival_PUT345 v3.45 at Internet Archive]
 ** [https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/put347.zip v3.47] (1998-01-01)
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/19981203161119/http://ameba.lpt.fi/%7Eeerheino/shs/shaid.htm SH Archive Identifier]
 ** [http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/shaid260.zip Version 2.60]

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 |subcat=Archiving
 |extensions={{ext|put}}, {{ext|ins}}
-|released=1990<ref name="doc">https://archive.org/download/msdos_festival_PUT345/PUT345.ZIP → PUT.DOC</ref>
+|released=1993
 }}
 :''For another "PUT" format, see [[PUT and GET (Scott Jennings)]].''
-'''PUT''' is a shareware archiver/compressor for [[DOS]] that produces files with the suffix ".put" (".PUT", using proper DOS naming conventions). The decompressor is called '''GET'''. PUT was made by a company called "MicroFox", which seems to have consisted of a single person, Jim Haas.<ref name="doc" />
+'''PUT''' is a shareware archiver/compressor for [[DOS]] that produces files with the suffix ".put" (".PUT", using proper DOS naming conventions). The decompressor is called '''GET'''. PUT was made by a company called "MicroFox", which seems to have consisted of a single person, Jim Haas.<ref name="doc">https://archive.org/download/msdos_festival_PUT345/PUT345.ZIP → PUT.DOC</ref>
-−
-Version 1.00 was released in 1993, but claims a copyright date of "1990-1993", so maybe it wasn't the first release.
 PUT files with an .INS extension are treated specially by the "INSTALL" program that is used by, and distributed with, some versions of PUT/GET.
 == Format details ==

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 == Sample files ==
-* {{DexvertSamples|archive/microfoxPut}}
+* {{DexvertSamples|archive/microfoxPUT}}
 == Links ==