LBR (file format)
LBR is a file format for data archiving .
The format gained popularity under the operating system CP / M and the command line program LU (later NULU) contained therein. It was mostly used in combination with the compressors / unpackers CR / UNCR ("[un-] crunch") or SQ ("squeeze"), the files then received the file extension .L Z R or .L Q R depending on the one Algorithm. It was still in use under DOS , but was then replaced by better formats like ARC and later ZIP and RAR . Today emulators for [NU] LU are still offered to read such files.
The file extension .LBR ("Library" for 'library') is not unique. Several incompatible formats have been developed in the course of IT history, for example by IBM for the delivery of software in the 1980s.
Web links
- Info about LBR under CP / M on the homepage of John Elliott
Individual evidence
- ^ Stan Wong: More CP / M 2: NULU & UNCR. ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on theadamresource.com (n.d., circa 2000), accessed August 16, 2016.
- ↑ a b cf. All about Archives, Libraries and Squeezed Files. Helpfile, from dei.isep.ipp.pt, on the website of the Institute for Computer Languages, Programming Languages and Translators of the Vienna University of Technology (undated, around 1998), accessed August 16, 2016.
