002/003 file extensions... compressed files?

[Robb Bates]

Playing around with some apps I found.

Micro Stat from here:

http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/business/business.htm

unzips to a bunch of files with 002 and 003 extensions.  It fails to launch, and some digging, I think maybe the problem is that the 002 and 003 files are compressed or something and need to be uncompressed.

Anyone have any ideas if that might be the case?

Robb

[Richard Deane]

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[Richard Deane]

A  quick look shows that it sort of works.

I tested on windows 11 at command prompt under runcpm.

I unzipped on Windows and it is clear that A-MAIN.002 should be named A/MAIN.002 under CP/M. Doing that rename makes the first error go away. Try renaming the others.

It is a program that runs with MBASIC. v2 doc of Microstat is on the internet, but it doesn't match this software instance.

I got as far as the menu of options so I guess with a bit of tweaking it can be made to work better.

Richard

On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 23:41, Robb Bates <robb...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Justin Skists]

Numbered file extensions take me back to the days where we used to "split" archives (numbered) , uuencode them, and put post them on usenet ... Uudecode them, "cat" them together, and unarc/unarj...

But, as you didn't mention 001 files, that seems unlikely....

Justin

[Justin Skists]

> But, as you didn't mention 001 files, that seems unlikely....

Unless there are files with the same base name, with normal extension, which is really the 001?

[Robb Bates]

Just replacing all the "-" in the filenames with "/" per Richard's suggestion seems to have worked.  Oh, and entry must be in caps.

I'm guessing the "/" doesn't work in zip files so they replaced with "-".  It would have helped if there was at least a note of some sort mentioning this.

Nice job Richard.

Thanks,

Robb

[Richard Deane]

Fell into myself a while back. :) 

I use LBR to package and unpackage under CP/M to avoid those issues.

Richard

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