LIFUTILS (Utilities to handle LIF files and media images)

Index

• Description
• Compatibility
• Installation
• License
• Acknowledgments

Description

LIFUTILS are command line utilities to handle various LIF (Hewlett Packard Logical Interchange Format) files and media images.

Main features are:

• Import or export files from a LIF image file to the local file system
• Pack, label, initialize a LIF image file
• Purge, rename files from a LIF image file
• List directory if a LIF image file
• Convert ASCII files to LIF text files and vice versa
• Compile/decompile HP-41 program files
• add LIF headers to certain raw file types (compiled HP-41 files, HP-41 ROM files)
• output HP-41 SDATA-, KEY-, status- WALL-files as text

See the doc/readme.html file for more information about features and usage.

Note: there is experimental support for the access of floppy devices to read and write HP9114 floppy disks under LINUX. Floppy disk support will n o t work with USB floppy devices.

Compatibility

The LIFUTILS were tested on LINUX, Windows 10 and mac OS.

INSTALLATION

The release section provides precompiled binaries for LINUX (32 and 64bit), Windows (32 bit and 64 bit) and mac OS.

See the Installation Instructions how to install.

License

The LIFUTILS are published under the GNU General Public License v2.0 License (see LICENSE file).

Acknowledgments

The LIF Utilities were originally developed by Tony Duell and enhanced by Joachim Siebold. Code was taken from hp41uc (Leo Duran), modfile (Warren Furlow) and liftool (Christophe Gottheimer).