Re: Apple2 archive at grind.isca.uiowa.edu

[taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <299qic$2s0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, Soren Carlson Spies writes...
> 
> Most programs, including yankit (I think) and GS-Shrinkit look at the
> .shk and say, "hey, this is probably for me."  Gs-Shrinkit 1.0.1's icons
> even make everything look nice in the finder as they are set to
> anything.shk (*.shk).

    Filetype preservation isn't the main issue though.  File *names*
are.  Something on UNIX called "shadowwrite-1.33.shk" will probably be
truncated to "shadowwrite.1.3" in ProDOS.  In this case, not only do you
lose the version number, you lose the extension.  Yes, GSHK/ShrinkIt/
yankit can ignore filetypes, but the filename loses meaning.  If you add
a Binary II header, when you download it to your Apple II, the file will
magically be renamed "SW1.33.shk" on your drive.

> It is pointless to doubly archive something in this way.

    Binary II is just a header, not an archive format.  It doesn't add
very much to a file.  128 bytes?  256 bytes?  Not over a single disk
block, in any case.
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