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posted by Doug E-mail, 16.08.2012, 21:56

> > But many of the files had three letter extensions ending in
> > exclamation points such as CALIBRAT.HL!, DISKREET.IC!
> >
> > Do you have any idea what that means?
>
> That used to be a way that disguised what each file was before it got
> installed.
> It only worked on people who couldn't work it out for themselves.
>
> The ! can be replaced by another letter.
>
> e.g. .HL! = .HLP
> .IC! = .ICO and so on.
Ron, i believe that in NU8, the installation-disk files that end in ! are zip archives. If you look at them with a hex viewer, they begin with the letters "PK"... and they can be successfully unzipped with an unzipper.

But you're right that they tried to hide the true nature of these files by changing the extension from the almost-universally-used ".ZIP". I guess they wanted to 'urge' users to use the installer they provided... which, ironically, only ran under Windows!

- Doug B.

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