HP-UX .WAD file format?

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org> wrote: Most excellent. Thank you for the tip. It seems so obvious now given that I assumed it was a compressed file archive for an HP-UX system. It was quicker to try this on my Win32 system where I had the files handy so renamed the .WAD files as .GZ files and used gzip to decompress them and then used GnuWin32 bsdtar -tvf on the decompresed files. Here's the result from the files on the floppy: 16505A CD INSTALL UTILITY Version A.01.40 Part Number: 16505-17571 INFO: -rwxrwxrwx 1 16505 16505 3190 Sep 02 1998 HP16505_cd_1_40.err -rwxrwxrwx 1 16505 16505 75 Sep 02 1998 HP16505_cd_1_40.files -rwxrwxrwx 1 16505 16505 168 Sep 02 1998 HP16505_cd_1_40.info -rwxrwxrwx 1 16505 16505 17540 Sep 02 1998 HP16505_cd_1_40.post -rwxrwxrwx 1 16505 16505 9279 Sep 02 1998 HP16505_cd_1_40.pre UPDATE: drwxrwxr-x 2 16505 16505 0 Sep 02 1998 usr/sprockets/env/filegroups drwxrwxr-x 3 0 3 0 Sep 02 1998 usr/sprockets/env drwxrwxr-x 3 0 3 0 Sep 02 1998 usr/sprockets drwxrwxr-x 3 0 3 0 Sep 02 1998 usr drwxrwxr-x 3 0 3 0 Sep 02 1998 . There is a companion CD-ROM Agilent 16505A Prototype Analyzer System Software REV. A.01.40 Part No. 16505-14601 The CD-ROM contains 29 floppy disk image files, which each contain an INFO.WAD / UPDATE.WAD file pair. HP16505_session-image_1 and HP16505_session-image_2 Update_1_40-image_1 through Update_1_40-image_27 I'll have to extract the INFO.WAD / UPDATE.WAD file pairs from each of those floppy images and view the contents of their .tar archives. Possibly this will actually contain the complete set of 16505A application (which is named "sprockets") files to layer on top of an HP-UX 9.0x installation. I have been trying to figure out how to rebuild an HP 16505A OS and software installation from scratch on a new hard drive for a while. -Glen