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Re: Apple 2/2gs compressed disk images
- Subject: Re: Apple 2/2gs compressed disk images
- From: Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:03:32 -0500
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David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/2011 11:38 AM, Harry Potter wrote:
>> [...] However, right now, I'm on a compression kick[...]
>
> This adds a layer of complexity and potential future obfuscation. Yes,
> zip is ubiquitous now. But uncompressing those images in the future may
> present unforeseen problems. Like the .SHK and .BXY wrappers that made
> sense for Apple stuff in another age, now they're just a pain to have to unravel.
>
> Or proprietary backup schemes - it sure is tricky to get a real file out
> of them. Or drive compression - remember that? You needed a device
> driver to get at those files. Time marches on, and wrappers make for
> headaches down the road.
Just for the record, while .bxy and .bny are wrappers, .shk is a
first-class compressed archive format, comparable to .zip but oriented to
Apple II filetypes and execution.
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon