Re: dsk and do files

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>There may be a difference between a file archive and a disk image
>>archive, but .shk designates BOTH.  That's what Andy Nicholas
>>intended and that's what Shrinkit does by default.  Just because
>>someone down the line thought up the .sdk designation and Nathan
>>Mates followed suite with a GUPP that changed Shrinkits default
>>behavior does not make it correct.  The .shk format is an archive
>>that may contain either a file or a disk image with a NuFx header
>>and most often compressed with LZW or LZW/2.
>
>Actually, this is just following the naming conventions that had
>occurred over time.  For example here are some common suffixes and
>what they contain:
>
>BNY = Binary II wrapped file(s)
>
>SHK = ShrinkIt archive   BXY = ShrinkIt archive in a Binary II wrapper
>QQ = Squeezed file   BQY = Squeezed file in a Binary II wrapper
>
>It is always nice to know what it is you are downloading so that
>you'll know if you have the software to unpack it successfully.

I can see WHY the .sdk designation was thought up and why it
might be useful, but all I am saying is that this was not what the
author, Andy Nicholas, intended...

Also, no matter WHAT the change, it does not make calling an
".sdk" image an ".shk file" wrong.  It can't be wrong.  It is what
Andy Nicholas intended and what his programs call by default.