15 Jan
2011
15 Jan
'11
10:09 a.m.
Anyone here know anything about the .WAD file format in the context of
HP-UX 9.0x, or more specifically in the context of an HP 16505A which
is logic analyzer application running on top of HP-UX 9.0x on an HP
712/60?
I have a set of MS-DOS FAT12 floppy disk images which each contain an
UPDATE.WAD and an INFO.WAD file pair. I believe these must be
compressed file archives. From looking at hex dumps of the files
there are no obvious plain text strings.
I would like to be able to view the archive contents and extract
whatever files they might contain.
Sample hex dumps below. These sample file pairs start with a common
15-byte file header:
UPDATE.WAD (file size 320-bytes)
0000:0000 1f9d 9030 6e04 1c08-a320 8c18 060b ca80 ...0n...? ....?.
0000:0010 4123 e08d 1a0c 0fde-40d8 30c6 c484 3016 A#?....?(a)?0??.0.
0000:0020 6284 61a3 c68d 1920-1bda c038 03e2 c684 b.a??.. .??8.??.
0000:0030 75e6 c879 3107 8e9c-3763 d694 a133 e745 u??y1...7c?.?3?E
0000:0040 1937 765e 9849 c3a6-cc99 9775 e0cc 0130 .7v^.I???..u??.0
0000:0050 50a0 c084 0813 ce88-78e3 e149 a524 4f76 P??...?.x??I?$Ov
0000:0060 fc18 9223 4619 1a9f-c248 b9b2 e5cb 9833 ?..#F...?H????.3
0000:0070 6bde b443 d428 4183-490d 366c d8d4 a4d6 k??C?(A.I.6l????
INFO.WAD (file size 12043 bytes)
0000:0000 1f9d 9030 6e04 1c08-a320 8c18 060b ca40 ...0n...? ....?@
0000:0010 18f0 8640 1a07 6f20-8418 4362 c283 170b .?. at ..o ..Cb?...
0000:0020 daa8 7163 8647 8836-6624 9401 31a3 8d18 ??qc.G.6f$..1?..
0000:0030 366c 2081 82b2 068c-1a5f c690 f912 e30b 6l ..?..._?.?.?.
0000:0040 4417 65e4 c801 3022-c40b 3169 dcbc 5833 D.e??.0"?.1i??X3
0000:0050 078d 8211 0a8e 8250-0a62 65cb 9731 67c6 .......P.be?.1g?
0000:0060 8008 22e8 1c3a 61d8-b001 9153 ce1b 3920 .."?.:a??..S?.9
0000:0070 e68c 9193 060e 9da3-4947 a85d cbb6 ad5a ?......?IG?]???Z
15 Jan
15 Jan
2:18 p.m.
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Glen Slick wrote:
I have a set of MS-DOS FAT12 floppy disk images which
each contain an
UPDATE.WAD and an INFO.WAD file pair. I believe these must be
compressed file archives. From looking at hex dumps of the files
there are no obvious plain text strings.
Sound like game files for one of the DOOM games.
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2:35 p.m.
On 15/01/2011 22:18, Roger Ivie wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Glen Slick wrote:
However I believe that Doom/Heretic/Hexen/RoTT WAD files always have
IWAD or PWAD as their first 4 bytes which these do not.
Cheers.
Phill.
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"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.
I have a set of MS-DOS FAT12 floppy disk images
which each contain an
UPDATE.WAD and an INFO.WAD file pair. I believe these must be
compressed file archives. From looking at hex dumps of the files
there are no obvious plain text strings.
Sound like game files for one of the DOOM games. 
4:10 p.m.
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Glen Slick wrote:
Anyone here know anything about the .WAD file format
in the context of
HP-UX 9.0x, or more specifically in the context of an HP 16505A which
is logic analyzer application running on top of HP-UX 9.0x on an HP
712/60?
I have a set of MS-DOS FAT12 floppy disk images which each contain an
UPDATE.WAD and an INFO.WAD file pair. I believe these must be
compressed file archives. From looking at hex dumps of the files
there are no obvious plain text strings.
I would like to be able to view the archive contents and extract
whatever files they might contain.
Sample hex dumps below. These sample file pairs start with a common
15-byte file header:
UPDATE.WAD (file size 320-bytes)
0000:0000 1f9d 9030 6e04 1c08-a320 8c18 060b ca80 ...0n...? ....?.
Several 'magic' files are telling me that files starting with 1f9d are
.tar.z files, i.e. tar archives that are LZW compressed. Have you tried:
zcat UPDATE.WAD | tar xf -
Alexey
4:29 p.m.
In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1101160004340.17283 at sdf.lonestar.org>,
Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org> writes:
zcat UPDATE.WAD | tar xf -
or 'tar tvf -' just to see what's in it without attempting to extract.
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5:22 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org> wrote:
Several 'magic' files are telling me that files starting with 1f9d are
.tar.z files, i.e. tar archives that are LZW compressed. Have you tried:
zcat UPDATE.WAD | tar xf -
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
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