SXD (Sydex)
Not to be confused with the SXD graphics format used by StarOffice Draw and OpenOffice Draw.
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Overview
Sydex offered an enhanced commercial Plus package for its CopyQM disk imaging software which provided additional features and tools. Creation of self-extracting disk images was enabled by the MAKESXD.EXE utility and the SELFEXTRACT option in the main program COPYQM.EXE.
Identification
Files are standard MS-DOS EXE files. A few combined DOS and 16-bit NE OS/2 extractors have been observed as well.
The overlay segment (refer to MS-DOS EXE#Special file positions) should start with ASCII SXD
. However, some files feature a wrapper block of text which will be shown on screen before the self-extracting image is written to a floppy disk; for example, a license agreement that must be accepted. The wrapper block starts with ASCII WB
, followed by the length of the block (same format as EXE header) and the compressed text. Then, ASCII SXD
follows the wrapper.
Software
- https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/29661/ibm0430-0439/ibm0436.tar/ibm0436/CQMP321.ZIP CopyQM Plus version 3.21