Re: How to unpack?

[jblaby@news.cyberstore.ca (John Blaby)]

On 14 Oct 1994 15:29:52 GMT, Gary Sutton (cvotter@prairienet.org) wrote:


  > I recently cruised around the ftp sites, downloading alot of
  > files that looked like they may be useful or at least interesting.
  > However, many of the files I grabbed aparently are not in SHK
  > format and as such, can't be uncompressed using ShrinkIT.
  > Some of the files have .bsq at the end of the name, and others
  > have nothing at all.
  > How do I uncompress these types of files so I can use them.
  > I was able to unshrink a couple of them with ShrinkIT by adding
  > .SHK to the end of the file name, but on the whole, most of them
  > were not recognized as ShrinkIT archives.

The files you are having trouble with were probably binscii'd after
packing with shrinkit. You will have to get an unbinscii utiltiy
(which come in many flavours). Once they have been unbinscii'd, then
you just process them with Shrinkit as normal.

  > Cat VonOtter
  > cvotter@prairienet.org

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