Hyper archive

Hyper archive (HYP) is a compressed archive format associated with an MS-DOS utility named Hyper. The utility was developed by K. P. Nischke and P. Sawatzki, and distributed as shareware.

Identification
A HYP file begins with bytes (if the first member file was compressible), or  (if not).

Self-extracting archives
Self-extracting HYP archives in EXE format are supported. They are constructed manually, by appending a .HYP file to a copy of the main HYPER.EXE file. In such a file, the archive data is embedded in the overlay segment (refer to MS-DOS EXE).

Specifications

 * Format info from Corion.net and FileFormats.Info
 * There is some format information in the HYPER.REF/HYPER.DOC file included in the distribution.

Software

 * (English)
 * (German)
 * Hyper v2.7 (German): CD Direkt 1995 03 → CDD/DIREKT/WIN/SF_PRG_2/INSTALL/HYPER.EXE

Hyper v2.7 (assuming it's legitimate) has only been found as a bare executable file, possibly only as a component of something called SF Install.

Links

 * Information from a PC Magazine article (Oct 15 1991, p. 316)