PMsfx

File Format
Name	PMsfx
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving PMsfx
Released	≤1990

PMsfx is a CP/M utility that creates self-extracting archives. It was developed by Yoshihiko Mino. It requires PMarc (see PMA).

Identification

Files have ASCII "-pms-" at offset 2. This resembles an LHA compression identifier, but it is not used in that way.

This probably does not distinguish them from PMexe. The best way to do that is unknown. V2.00 files have a string at offset 14 that begins "PMsfx", but files from earlier versions do not.

Software

• pm-utils.pma → PMSFX2.*

Sample files

v1.12:

• freewar2.pma → VC12.COM

v1.14:

• msxfan06.zip → MSXF06.DSK → BSPPMA.COM

v2.00:

• lhasa source code: test/archives/pmarc2/sfx.com
• sdosupd.com
• NVMAGA7B.LZH → BAKUDAN.COM, FW.COM, GEARD2.COM