Re: .bqy file?

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

In article <51Kl9vJ.seanlynch@delphi.com>,
seanlynch  <seanlynch@delphi.com> wrote:
> Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> writes:
>  
> >I tried to unshrink a  .bqy file.
> >SHRINKITit didnt recognize the file. Any other s/w that would do it?
>  
> it may be called .bqy because you already have a file of the same name
> in that directory
>  
> for instance if you already have a file hard/download/file.bqx
> and you try to download another your comm program will probably rename the
> file file.bqy.

There is no such extension as ".BQX".  BinSCII files containing
ShrinkIt archives are usually called ".BSQ".

".BQY" is a perfectly valid extension: it is used for Binary II files
containing squeezed files (created by SQ or BLU).  Squeezed files
without a Binary II header have an extension of ".QQ".  SHRINKIT is
able to extract these.

> if this *.bqy or *.bqx is binscii'd you must un-binscii it first.
>  
> you can tell if it is binscii'd by looking at it with a text editor like
> teach or EGOed.

No argument there - someone may have just got the extension wrong.
SHRINKIT cannot handle BinSCIIed data.  You have to un-BinSCII it
before trying to decode it with SHRINKIT.

It might also have been encoded using some other format such as BinHex
or UUENCODE.

> the gibberish that comes after the line:
>  
> sTaRTFilEStarTFilE

Actually, that's "FiLeStArTfIlEsTaRt".  The case alternates for each
letter.  :-)
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