Hyper archive

File Format
Name	Hyper archive
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Hyper archive
Extension(s)	.hyp
Released	~1989

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 1a 48 50 (if the first member file was compressible), or 1a 53 54 (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#Special file positions).

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

• Hyper v2.5 (English)
• Hyper v2.6 (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)