Date   : Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:34:05 +0000
From   : hideki.adam@... (adam colley)
Subject: Tube on the Archimedes

Hihi

On 11 March 2010 23:52, Theo Markettos <theo@...> wrote:
> In article <4B994ABE.9000809@...> you wrote:
>> Mmmm, problem. In driver code archive, /keyboard/KeybPC63.c
>> The file is gibberish, with the top looking like:
>> ? ?<blah>PKLITE Copr. 1992 PKWARE Inc. All Rights ReservedNot enough
>> ? ?memory<blah>
>> No "MZ" so not an EXE. Doesn't run as a COM. WinZip and 7Zip don't
>> recognise it as a compressed file (with or without .zip extn).
>
> That says it's a PKLITE archive, which was a DOS compression program. ?I'm
> not sure if it's the same format as PKZIP. ?The typo makes things
> interesting - google for "PKLITE Copr." to find various thigns on it. ?You
> could give a DOS PKLITE executable a try.

PKLite was a compressor by PKWare, the same people responsible for
PKZip, however, it is not for creating archives, it is for compressing
dos executable files, .exe/.com, if you find a copy of pklite, you can
restore it to its original form with pklite -x filename I think (the
command has help and it's been about 20 years)

My main use for it was fitting things on bootable floppies but if it's
supposed to be a .c source file, I'd say it's definitely corrupt, my
best guess would be a crosslinked file at some point on a FAT type FS
but who knows?

-- 
Hideki.Adam