Aldus PKZP

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File Format
Name Aldus PKZP
Ontology
Extension(s) .??~, others
Released ≤1991

Some Aldus software distributions, particularlly PageMaker, used an installer-archive format that might be known as Aldus PKZP, or Aldus Zip.

An archive contains a single member file, or a fragment of a file.

The compression scheme is based on PKWARE DCL Implode, though segmented in some way.

Identification

The first 16 bytes of a file are ASCII "ALDUS PKZP  2.00".

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