PUT

PUT is a shareware archiver/compressor for DOS, released in 1990, that produces files with the suffix ".put" (".PUT", using proper DOS naming conventions). The decompressor is called "GET". PUT was made by a company called "MicroFox", which seems to have consisted of a single person, Jim Haas.

Identification
PUT files appear to start with 2 variable bytes, and then the ASCII text "-lZ5-". (The use of "lZ" suggests that PUT's compression may be based on LZ77 or LZ78; however, there is nothing to confirm this.)

Software

 * PUT and GET 3.45 (also contains a program called FED that fills out "forms" in text files consisting of underscores)
 * Ainviewer
 * Multiple Unpacker
 * Author's homepage (does not seem to contain any relevant information, at least in English)
 * SH Archive Identifier
 * Version 2.60

Links

 * MicroFox Programs (1999)