On 7/11/2012 7:01 PM, kinkapalms@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:13:39 AM UTC+10, schmidtd wrote:.sdk, .shk, .bxy and their ilk bother me no end. The quicker they are expunged from all repositories, the better, in my opinion (an opinion not shared by all, I realize).I agree. :)
I agree too. I seriously doubt anyone is using a GS to directly transfer the image files from the 'net. On a modern computer .zip or .tgz makes a lot more sense for compression.
Here is an example of why .sdk is bad. I want to make a floppy out of an OS9 disk image that happens to be in .sdk format. Cider Press doesn't know how to handle OS9 volumes. I can use it to uncompress to a 140K image, .do or .po and hope that one of them is correct. Or maybe none is and OS9 uses its own interleave?
So IMHO DOS 3.3 images should be .do, Prodos images - .po And everything else probably .nib compressed with say gzip. -Alex.