Re: Spyhunter GS?

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 1/27/2013 2:24 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>> magnusfalkirk wrote:
>>> 
>>> Downloaded the file from Macgui but can't get the spyhunter.bsq to open.
>>> Shrinkit says it's not a known file type and Shrinkit GS doesn't know what
>>> to do with it either.
>> 
>> I don't know. I got that error too with Shrink GS.
>> 
>>> So how to I open it?
>> 
>> It's a BinSCII file so I used sciibin on my Unix system to get the .SHK
>> file.
> 
> Wow.  That's obfuscation beyond all reason.  Let's peel back the layers:
> 1. SYS 16+ app. Wrapped in...
> 2. SHK archive.  Wrapped in...
> 3. BSQ encoding.  Wrapped in...
> 4. gzip archive.
> each requiring a separate tool to unpack.  I uploaded a .po to asimov...

And a perfect example of natural stratigraphy: from the modem age, ShrinkIt
to reduce volume and BINSCII to handle ASCII transfers before MIME, and
more recently, gzip to keep MIME honest. ;-)

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon