Re: Apple2 archive at grind.isca.uiowa.edu

[jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <28d4ne$ds6@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG>, vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
|> >Of these choices, I prefer the ShrinkIt archives simply because
|> >BinSCII'd files are so huge.  What I'd really like to see, though,
|> >are Binary II-encoded ShrinkIt archives.
|> 
|> Why? I mean, what does that give you that plain .shk doesn't?
|> 

It just seems like a better way to do things -- I don't like mucking
around with file types, etc.  This is really a non-issue for normal
ShrinkIt archives, I guess, but I like files in other formats
(ProDOS applications, self-extracting archives) to arrive on my computer
with their attributes intact.

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)