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Re: GS/OS Creator/Type listings for CDROM



On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:33:32 GMT, Jay <Someone@somewhere.com> wrote:

>       .tif     Raw     '8BIM'    'TIFF'   "Photoshop TIFF image"
>       .hqx     Ascii   'BnHq'    'TEXT'   "BinHex file"
>       .doc     RAW     'MSWD'    'WDBN'   "Word file"
>       .mov     Raw     'TVOD'    'MooV'   "QuickTime Movie"
>       .shk     RAW     '????'    '????'   "Shrinkit Archive"

The second 'i' in ShrinkIt should be capitalized.

>       .bxy     Ascii   'BnHq'    'TEXT'   "BinHex file"

This is a ShrinkIt file in a Binary II wrapper.  Perhaps a description
would be "Binary II wrapped ShrinkIt file".

>       .bsc     Ascii   'BnHq'    'TEXT'   "BinHex file"

This is a BINscii file.  You might also run across .bsq which is a
ShrinkIt file that has been encoded with BINscii.

>       .dsk	RAW	'B2TR'	  'DSK5'   "5.25" Image File"

A better description would be "5.25" Disk Image File"

>       .do	RAW	'B2TR'	  'DOS3'   "Dos 3.3 Image File"

A better description would be "5.25" DOS 3.3 Disk Image File"

>       .po	RAW	'B2TR'    'PDOS'   "Prodos Image File"

A better description would be "5.25" ProDOS Disk Image File"

>       .2mg     RAW	'B2TR'    '2IMG'   "800K Image File"

.2mg files can be pretty much any size.  They aren't limited to just
800K disk images.  Perhaps a description of "Apple II Disk Image File"
would be better.

>       .nib     RAW     'B2TR'    'NIBL'   "Nibble Image File"

I believe .nib files are only of 5.25" disks so you might want to
change this description to be more accurate as well.

>       .sea	RAW	'PDOS'    'PSYS'   "Self Extracting Archive"

.sea can also be for 16 bit programs as well as 8 bits.

>       .readme  Ascii   'PDOS'    'TEXT'   "Text file"
>       .txt     Ascii   'PDOS'    'TEXT'   "Text file"
>       .info    Ascii   'PDOS'    'TEXT'   "Text file"
>       .zip     RAW     'ZIP '    'ZIP '   "Zip file"
>       .exe     RAW     'PDOS'    'PSYS'   "Prodos 8 Executable"

I don't think I've ever seen an 8 bit program with a .exe extension.
I've seen a few with a .system extension but usually they don't have
extensions at all.  I have seen .exe and .exec be used for executable
text files (the ones you type EXEC filename at an Applesoft prompt).
However, these are straight ASCII text files and not binary files or 8
bit programs.

>       *        RAW     'PDOS'    'PSYS'   "Prodos 8 Executable"

This will end up flagging a lot of data files as 8 bit programs if you
leave it in.

I hope this info helps.

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