Re: RFC: downloading info for c.s.a2 FAQ

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

BabarStCyr <babarstcyr@aol.com> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I jump in this thread just to say that since some months
> I cannot unpack A2 files I download.
> These files are .SHK and ShrinKit cannot open them.
> If I dump them in hexa I see NxFylz... in header.

The 'x', 'y' and 'z' are probably not actually those characters.  The
word actually reads "NuFile", but every second character (the "u", "i"
and "e") have the high order bit set, thus the byte pattern (in
hexadecimal) is: 4E F5 46 E9 6C E5.

Make sure you are not losing control characters or the high order bit
when transferring ShrinkIt files: you need an 8-bit binary transfer, not
an ASCII transfer.

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