HIT (compressed archive)

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File Format
Name HIT (compressed archive)
Ontology
Extension(s) .hit
Released ≤1995

HIT is a compressed archive utility for DOS, and its associated file format. It was developed by Bogdan Ureche.

Format details

A HIT file consists of a two-byte archive signature, followed by a sequence of member file segments.

Each member segment starts with a header. A member header starts with a two-byte field giving the header size, followed by a 1-byte checksum field. The checksum is derived from all bytes in the header except the checksum field.

Identification

Files start with a two-byte signature: ASCII "UB".

The byte at offset 3 is almost certain to be 0x00, though that's not strictly required.

Validating the first header checksum would also help to identify the format.

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