lif_utils
(<http://www.hpcc.org/datafile/hpil/lif_utils.html>) will do
that nicely. Or at the very least it'll let you extract the contents of
a LIF file and display some information about it. Try 'lifstat',
'lifdir' and 'lifget'.
And you even get a design for a microcontroller-based project (nothing at
all to do with LIF disks...)
-tony