DWC Format Intel byte order Incomplete information Information from File Format List 2.0 by Max Maischein. --------!-CONTACT_INFO---------------------- If you notice any mistakes or omissions, please let me know! It is only with YOUR help that the list can continue to grow. Please send all changes to me rather than distributing a modified version of the list. This file has been authored in the style of the INTERxxy.* file list by Ralf Brown, and uses almost the same format. Please read the file FILEFMTS.1ST before asking me any questions. You may find that they have already been addressed. Max Maischein Max Maischein, 2:244/1106.17 Max_Maischein@spam.fido.de corion@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Corion on #coders@IRC --------!-DISCLAIMER------------------------ DISCLAIMER: THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS". I verify the information contained in this list to the best of my ability, but I cannot be held responsible for any problems caused by use or misuse of the information, especially for those file formats foreign to the PC, like AMIGA or SUN file formats. If an information it is marked "guesswork" or undocumented, you should check it carefully to make sure your program will not break with an unexpected value (and please let me know whether or not it works the same way). Information marked with "???" is known to be incomplete or guesswork. Some file formats were not released by their creators, others are regarded as proprietary, which means that if your programs deal with them, you might be looking for trouble. I don't care about this. -------------------------------------------- The DWC archives seem to be a relict from ancient computing times - I've never seen any program that dealt with them or could create them. They are yet included in this compilation for reasons I don't know. But maybe one of you stumbles over such a file, he might find this documentation helpful. The DWC archives consist of single file entries with one archive trailer. The archive entries seem to be at the start of the archive, but maybe they are stored at the end of the archive, before the trailer. Each file header has the following format : OFFSET Count TYPE Description 0000h 13 char Name of the original file in ASCIIZ. 000Dh 1 dword Size of the original file 0011h 1 dword UNIX format date and time of the original file 0015h 1 dword Size of the compressed file 0019h 1 dword Offset of compressed data in archive file 001Dh 1 byte Method : 1 - crunched 2 - stored 001Eh 1 byte Comment Length 001Fh 3 byte Reserved The trailer at the end of each archive has the following format : OFFSET Count TYPE Description 0000h 1 word Length of trailer (=27) 0002h 1 word Size of the directory entries (=34)?? 0004h 16 byte reserved 0014h 1 dword Count of the directory entries 0018h 3 char ID="DWC" EXTENSION:DWC?? OCCURENCES:PC?? PROGRAMS:DWC.EXE??