Re: hypercard 1.1

[o9938156@unicorn.it.wsu.edu (mark lyon)]

Brian D. Uhreen (bduhreen@freenet.calgary.ab.ca) wrote:
: hej all,
: 	I got in to apple's software updates the other day and found that
: hypercard 1.1 for the IIGS was in there.  Now there was two different
: types of compresions in folder.  There was a bxy and a hqx format.  I
: didn't know which to get so I got both of them.  The finder told me that
: the bxy format was a applesingle compresion type method. I loaded it into
: GSHK and it told me that is was a unknown or and unsupported format.  The
: hqx I decompressed with GScii+ and all it left me with was a binary file. 
: 	I looked at both files and they seemed to both be created on a 
: macintosh.  Am I going to need a mac to decompress these files?
: 	Brian

The bxy files are shrinkit files in a binary II wrapper, sort of.  There
is some sort of header attached to the front of the files.  It is 640
bytes long, so all you have to do is remove the first 640 bytes of
each file, then they will unshrink normally.  I probably have the
program I wrote to do just that sitting around, and I could post it
if there is popular demand.

Mark.