[comp.sys.amiga.misc] File storage types

boi@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com (04/06/91)

On ab20.larc.nasa.gov some of the files have suffixes I am unaware
of. Can anyone give some insight into these?
		 
       .dms  (e.g. incoming/amiga/BUDvsCRIO.dms)

       .zom  (e.g. amiga/demos/commercial/LemmingsDemo.zom)

s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) (04/06/91)

boi@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com writes:

>On ab20.larc.nasa.gov some of the files have suffixes I am unaware
>of. Can anyone give some insight into these?
>		 
>       .dms  (e.g. incoming/amiga/BUDvsCRIO.dms)

>       .zom  (e.g. amiga/demos/commercial/LemmingsDemo.zom)

.dms is a Disk Mashed file (DMS). I can't remember where you can find this
program on ab20 :-|

.zom is created by Zoom. See above for location.

Anyway, they are both compressed disk images (ie, they are a a file which
contains every track compressed into one big file, so you can compress non
DOS disks (ie, games))

:r .sig

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