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

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <28d4ne$ds6@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG>, Phillip Vandry writes...
> 
> jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong) writes:
> >
> >Of these choices, I prefer the ShrinkIt archives simply because
> >BinSCII'd files are so huge.  What I'd really like to see, though,
> >are Binary II-encoded ShrinkIt archives.
> 
> Why? I mean, what does that give you that plain .shk doesn't?

    Then you can have nice, long descriptive UNIX-y filenames, but
magically turn them back into filenames conforming to ProDOS standards
when you download them (and have the correct filetype, as a bonus).  I'd
like to see that.
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