Re: Format of SHK files

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Rubywand wrote:

> Jamie writes ...
> > 
> > Hi, bit of a silly question, but where could i get some info on the
> > shk file format and its compression formats it supports.
> 
>      The basic compression method is called "NuFX". I do not recall
> coming across a description of the .shk format. Pretty good places
> to look would be 'info' folders on Ground and Apple Cabi.net:
> 
> ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/
> http://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/

Actually, I think a complete description of a ShrinkIt archive can be
found in Apple's FileType Notes for the IIGS.  Don't know where to find
them online at the moment, but I'm sure someone can provide that info,
they may even be on Ground or Apple Cabi.net...haven't looked in ages.

But, NuFX is sort of the offical name of the file format...the 
compression method used is LZW.

Greg B.

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