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| author | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-21 03:57:48 -0500 |
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| committer | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-11-21 03:57:48 -0500 |
| commit | 20aba7cceecad6c8bce5dba8990ea69e49137cd8 (patch) | |
| tree | e6f797297140b09d366ab4c3b01dee02522e7f9d /README.txt | |
| parent | 232065f88feb93c999c99f085bce049bb73fae36 (diff) | |
| download | unalf-20aba7cceecad6c8bce5dba8990ea69e49137cd8.tar.gz | |
Refer to Atari programs by original names (LZ and DZ, not ALF and UNALF).
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@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ Linux and anything else that's POSIX-ish. It's also intended to be a repository of information about the ALF archiver (and UNALF dearchiver). -The original ALF/UNALF programs for the Atari were written by Alfred. +The original LZ.COM/DZ.COM (aka ALF/UNALF) programs for the Atari were +written by Alfred. + This project is by B. Watson (urchlay@slackware.uk). The rest of this file is a list of the contents of the git repository @@ -26,15 +28,18 @@ Included in both the source and binary distributions: file structure is almost identical to ARC's. This file was taken from the arc-5.21q source. -- doc/alf14.atr - the distribution disk for ALF version 1.4, as an Atari - 8-bit single-density floppy disk image. This likely isn't the original - distribution disk, but it's the only one I've found on the various - archive sites. +- doc/DZ.COM - the Atari executable of the ALF extractor (aka UNALF). + This and LZ.COM are the same files as the ones inside the .atr image. + +- doc/LZ.COM - the Atari executable of the ALF archiver (aka ALF). + +- doc/alf14.atr - bootable DOS 2.0S disk image, with LZ.COM (aka ALF), + DZ.COM (aka UNALF), and the documentation. This is not the original + distribution disk: there never was one. Alfred distributed these + files as an ARC archive on his BBS. -- doc/alf14_doc.txt - the documentation for ALF and UNALF, extracted - from the disk image and converted from ATASCII to standard ASCII. Note - that the filenames are different: LZ.COM for ALF14.COM and DZ.COM for - UNALF14.COM. +- doc/alf14_doc.txt - the documentation for LZ.COM and DZ.COM, extracted + from the disk image and converted from ATASCII to standard ASCII. - doc/fileformat.txt - documents how the ALF file format differs from ARC. |
