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Re: Spyhunter GS?
David Schmidt wrote:
> On 1/27/2013 2:24 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>> magnusfalkirk wrote:
>>>
>>> Downloaded the file from Macgui but can't get the spyhunter.bsq to open.
>>> Shrinkit says it's not a known file type and Shrinkit GS doesn't know
>>> what
>>> to do with it either.
>>
>> I don't know. I got that error too with Shrink GS.
>>
>>> So how to I open it?
>>
>> It's a BinSCII file so I used sciibin on my Unix system to get the .SHK
>> file.
>
> Wow. That's obfuscation beyond all reason. Let's peel back the layers:
> 1. SYS 16+ app. Wrapped in...
> 2. SHK archive. Wrapped in...
> 3. BSQ encoding. Wrapped in...
> 4. gzip archive.
> each requiring a separate tool to unpack. I uploaded a .po to asimov...
>
I accept the responsibility for adding gzip.;-) But the rest is as it was
when I originally got the file.
See, this is the motivation for writing a universal format converter for Mac
GUI Vault downloads! :-0
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