Re: More help with some GS cards.

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 21:45:11 -0500, "Bill Garber"
: <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
:
: >The suffix actually is cosmetic. Disk archives can also
: >be named .SHK, and still work just fine.
:
: Well, I wouldn't say the filename suffix is just cosmetic.  It
isn't
: just there for looks, it is there to let people know a little
: something about the contents of the file.  An SDK suffix tells
people
: that the file contains one or more compressed disk images where
an SHK
: suffix says that the file contains one or more compressed
files.
:
: Because it can sometimes be a hassle to make sure you have
floppy
: drives hooked up, and the proper size floppies as well, or set
up the
: right size RAM disk just to unpack an SDK file, I tend to avoid
them
: when I can and prefer to find a file archive version, with an
SHK
: extension, instead.  There are times when you need to use SDK
and
: those I will go through the hassles to get working but others I
prefer
: the SHK file instead.
:
: So, if you have files with the wrong extension on them, people
might
: pass them over thinking they are what you say they are instead
of what
: they actually are.
:
: All that said, I still prefer to use BXY files (a ShrinkIt
file,
: either SHK or SDK in a Binary II wrapper) anyway.  :-)

I prefer everything ZIPPED, you think I'll get it? ;-)

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