Re: Facelift and BXY

[hurry@imap2.asu.edu]

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:18:56 GMT, Edhel Iaur, Esq. wrote:
> There IS a program that just undoes .BXY, tho...wasn't it BLU or
> something?

Correct.  Actually, BLU is a precursor to Shrinkit.  It creates Binary II 
files and allows archiving of multiple files.  It "squeezes" files to 
achieve some compression.  It isn't nearly as good as Shrinkit and its 
interface is crude.  You have to manually specify the source directory 
and target filename and then you get a selector that shows files.  Some 
older FTP sites still have BLU on them but it is worthless today as 
Shrinkit extracts files created by it and does a better job at 
compression.  The only thing I did with it was to discover that ProTERM 
3.1 didn't get the Binary II spec quite right.  Try uploading a file from 
ProTERM with Binary II encoding on.  Download that same file with 
decoding off and attempt to list its contents with BLU.  The result is a 
weird error.  Nulib also can't handle Binary II files created by 
ProTERM.  It says "file size broken."  Note that BLU will extract (but 
not list) these files and shrinkit has no problems with them.  ProTERM 
also has no trouble automatically extracting them if told to.

--
Adam Myrow