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

On 7/13/2012 4:20 PM, D Finnigan wrote:

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 mean that interpreters of the spec took "interesting" liberties with it. That is, they created archives with bugs in them. Fortunately, they tended to inject those bugs consistently, so there's patterns to watch out for so they can be reliably re-interpreted.