Re: What file compression program is need for .ACU files?

[fadden@spies.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <20001108131718.08876.00000256@ng-mh1.aol.com>,
ICS Softy <icssofty@aol.com> wrote:
>>ShrinkItGS doesn't recognize .ACU.
>
>As Randy said.... it's a fossil.
>
>.ACU was the first compression format created by Floyd Zink to be used by
>AppleLink-PE to store files in it's system.  However not long after that Andy
>Nicholas developed ShrinkIt and it immediately took over as the standard.
>
>The ACU utility isn't available in any of the AOL Apple II libraries, but
>looking at some of the old files that were packed using ACU it appears that the
>8-bit version of ShrinkIt will unpack an .ACU file.


Did they do a filetype note or other specification on ACU?

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