LIF (Knowledge Dynamics)
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.LIF is an installer-archive format, apparently associated with INSTALL for DOS, by Knowledge Dynamics Corporation. See RED (Knowledge Dynamics) for more information about INSTALL.
This article covers the LIF format that begins with a string of ASCII-encoded hex digits. Note that the presumed successor format, RED, also sometimes uses the .LIF filename extension.
File structure
A LIF file consists of a sequence of member file segments. Each member consists of a 54-byte header, then the file data, which is usually compressed.
The header starts with 34 bytes of ASCII-encoded hex digits. A filename follows. The bytes at offset 8 through 15 encode the compressed data size, which is needed to locate the next member.
Sample files
- dosdrvrs.zip → *.LIF
- FINDEMO1.ZIP → *.LIF
- ORIGINWM.ZIP → *.LIF
