Re: 2qwk in Zip format. Why?

[Chuck Orem <progreens@delphi.com>]

 >The discussion of the latest 2qwk version prompted me to get it off
 >of ftp.cco.caltech.edu.  I got on and found it, but the file name is
 >iiqwk126.zip.  What is Zip format?  How do I unpack it?  And why the
 
The .zip extension is commonly used for files that are compacted with the
PKZIP archiver program for the PC.
 
You unpack it with a program called Angel, by Tony Marques. Ensure the
filename ends with .zip or .qwk, or Angel will not recognize it as an
archive.
 
 >heck wasn't it shrunk with ShrinkIt like everything else?
 
Because I asked the sysop at caltech, Daniel Zimmerman (dmz@cco.caltech.edu),
to leave it in .zip format.
 
Here is an excerpt from the programs documentation, perhaps this will clear
up some of the confusion.
 
>    You might have noticed that it was exceedingly difficult to get the
>    actual program out of this archive. There was actually reasons for
>    every painful step that you had to go through. The Zip archiver that
>    I use packs things much more tightly than Shrinkit, and you need a
>    program that extracts Zip archives anyway. I've also intentionally
>    used a filename that is illegal under normal ProDOS. This is because
>    you *need* to patch your operating system to handle more flexible
>    filenames or the program won't work.
 
                                                Chuck
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