Hyper archive

File Format
Name	Hyper archive
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Hyper archive
Extension(s)	.hyp
Released	~1989

Hyper archive (HYP) is a compressed archive format associated with an MS-DOS utility named Hyper. The utility was developed by K. P. Nischke and P. Sawatzki, and distributed as shareware.

Identification

A HYP file begins with bytes 1a 48 50 (if the first member file was compressible), or 1a 53 54 (if not).

Specifications

• format info from Corion.net and FileFormats.Info
• There is some format information in the HYPER.REF file from the Hyper v2.5 distribution.

Software

• Hyper v2.5 (English)
• Hyper v2.6 (German)