Re: What file compression program is need for .ACU files?

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <8ud3q4$4bq$1@spies.com>, Andy McFadden <fadden@spies.com> wrote:

>>>ShrinkItGS doesn't recognize .ACU.
>>
>>As Randy said.... it's a fossil.
>>
>>.ACU was the first compression format created by Floyd Zink to be used by
>>AppleLink-PE to store files in it's system.  However not long after that Andy
>>Nicholas developed ShrinkIt and it immediately took over as the standard.
>>
>>The ACU utility isn't available in any of the AOL Apple II libraries, but
>>looking at some of the old files that were packed using ACU it appears that the
>>8-bit version of ShrinkIt will unpack an .ACU file.
>
>Did they do a filetype note or other specification on ACU?

Kinda doubt it since it predates the archive file type ($E0). It would be
in the file type notes if they bothered putting it there. I forget.
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