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Re: Many File Formats: do they bother you?
- Subject: Re: Many File Formats: do they bother you?
- From: roughana <andrew.roughan@writeme.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:38:46 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:13:39 AM UTC+10, schmidtd wrote:
> .sdk, .shk, .bxy and their ilk bother me no end. The quicker they are
> expunged from all repositories, the better, in my opinion (an opinion
> not shared by all, I realize).
I am surprised by all the flak that the Shrinkit format is copping in this thread.
Binary II and Shrinkit preserve the Apple II filetypes and auxiliary flags. Things which are important for applications to deal with file content correctly in ProDOS and GS/OS.
If you just zipped an AWP file, the receiver would not be able to deal with it without adjusting the filetype and auxiliary information. Now that's a step I would rather not have to do.
Sure, if everything is on a Disk Image, then this is contained within the image. So I guess the relevance is diminishing today somewhat.
Personally, I use Balloon NDA to unshrink content from the GS/OS Finder and think highly of it. No need for a separate application launch.
Regards,
Andrew