Re: Wolfenstein 3D levels

[Stavros Robert Karatsoridis <skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>]

Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
> In article <19980302043301.XAA25228@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
> Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>>.sit is a proprietary format ... (rest snipped)

>    In a publically documented file format that handles extended files.
> Mac BinHex does extended files, but *isn't* proprietary and others can
> make their own decompressors. It SHOULD be the same way for most Mac
> archives, and especially for anything that's on a publically available
> software site. My problem is not necessarily with .sit; it is with its
> proprietary format. If .sit dox were available so that others could
> write decompressors, that'd be great and solve this problem. Or, if
> another format was developed that had freely available specs, same
> thing.

Mac BinHex, as far as I know, is not a compression method.  It is just
like BinScii on the Apple II.


> Nathan Mates

Stavros