HPACK (compressed archive)

File Format
Name	HPACK (compressed archive)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving HPACK (compressed archive)
Extension(s)	.hpk
Released	≤1991

HPACK is a compressed archive format, and associated software. It was developed by Peter Gutmann. It was ported to a number of different OSes.

Identification

Files start with ASCII HPAK.

Specifications

• hpack78src.tar.gz → docs/hpackstd.txt

Software

• HPACK v0.75c0 DOS (1991-12-28)
• HPACK v0.78a0 DOS (1992-09-01)
• HPACK v0.78 source code
• HPACK v0.79a0 DOS (1993-05-01)
• HPACK v0.79 OS/2
• HPACK v0.79 Amiga
• HPACK v0.79 source code

Sample files

• dexvert samples — archive/hpack

Links

• man page