Hey all…
Does anyone know what will open archives that end in .JCL? I’ve got a file that presumeably is an uncompressed archive. It contains a few .RAW audio files, some 3D models of unknown format and a mass of bitmaps. I’ve tried the usual tricks of trying to open it as a tarball and a cab file without luck.
What operating system are you using?
Well I’m posting this from a PC running windows 98, but I’ve got access to a system running Mandrake Linux 6.1 and a Macintosh Centris 650…
What applications have you tried for opening the file?
WinZip, TAR, Stuffit Expander… I even looked at it in notepad to see if it has any obvious divisions between files. No luck…
you should try WinRar.
Martin
Is it possible that the extension of the file is wrong and you just need to retype it? Some people make up their own file extensions so that if they have two programs that open the same file they can pick which program to open it with simply by naming it with one extension or another. Is it possible this one is a wrong extension?
Even if the extension is wrong, that would not usually prevent a program from understanding its content.
Martin
Well, after googling for “JCL file format” i got these links.
http://support.ca.com/ca_common_docs/latest_applyptf.html
and
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/ 2001-May/008777.html
Does someone know what these websites are talking about?
On a side topic, does anyone here have a copy of “Speed Haste” or “Circut Racer” for the PC? It uses the same format for it’s data file.
Ahhhhh this sounds to me like a proprietary file format that is NOT designed to be opened by people not involved with the development of the software. Short of decompiling the games somehow to find out how they access the data, it doesn’t, at least to me, that you’ll be able to open these files. I could be wrong as always.
for all your FILE EXTENTION questions go to
its like the CDDB for file extentions.
heres the link to information on the JCL format
http://www.filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=jcl
when i have a querry about an extention this is the first and last place i go to get it.
Alltaken
What are the first four bytes of the file?