Re: FormatConverter, was Re: Many File Formats: do they bother you?

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

David Schmidt wrote:
>
>  Functionality is slowly making its way into AppleCommander 
> (Java) too.  But there's so much detail and history and tweaks that Andy 
> McFadden has imbued CP with that it's daunting to contemplate doing it 
> all again.  Especially when you get into the NuFx realm - it's like 
> English.  All the interesting stuff is in the exceptions to the rules. 
> If you code to the spec, all is lost. ;-)

Do you mean that there are interesting SHK archives? Or that the format has
these interesting things?

I last read the documentation on the format a few months ago when I was
going to write code to list the contents of SHK files, but I didn't get too
far, and I ended up working on another project instead. Now I'm back at it.

Since I serve Mac files too, FormatConverter will deal with them, but
fortunately, there aren't nearly as many formats for Macs. Mostly just
BinHex and StuffIt. I wonder if I should allow perverse conversions... like
converting Apple II formats into Mac formats...


> 
> And don't forget that NuLib2/NufxLib are available on various other 
> platforms:
> http://www.nulib.com/downloads/index.htm

Indeed, I had compiled and was using that CLI program until Mr. Sherlock
came round with his Shrink-Fit X program.

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