PUT
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| == Identification == | == Identification == | ||
| − | PUT files appear to start with 2 variable bytes, and then the [[ASCII]] text "-lZ5-". (The use of "lZ" suggests that PUT's compression may be based on [[LZ77]] or [[LZ78]]; however, there is nothing to confirm this.) | + | PUT files appear to start with 2 variable bytes, and then the [[ASCII]] text "{{magic|-lZ5-}}". (The use of "lZ" suggests that PUT's compression may be based on [[LZ77]] or [[LZ78]]; however, there is nothing to confirm this.) | 
| == Software == | == Software == | ||
Revision as of 06:31, 10 September 2019
PUT is a shareware archiver/compressor for DOS, released in 1990, 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.[1]
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Identification
PUT files appear to start with 2 variable bytes, and then the ASCII text "-lZ5-". (The use of "lZ" suggests that PUT's compression may be based on LZ77 or LZ78; however, there is nothing to confirm this.)
Software
- PUT and GET 3.45 (also contains a program called FED that fills out "forms" in text files consisting of underscores)
- Ainviewer
-  Multiple Unpacker
- Author's homepage (does not seem to contain any relevant information, at least in English)
 
- SH Archive Identifier
Links
- MicroFox Programs (1999)

