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

[taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1993Sep25.162457.10418@cas.org>, Larry W. Virden writes...
> 
> What is the purpose of the suffix - to tell someone how to extract info
> from the file?  Seems like a simple text file containing info would be
> much more helpful .  Otherwise you are going to have to have so many combos
> of extensions that you never will get done.  What if the file is zip'd, or
> lha'd or gzip/tar'd?  What if the file can only be extracted by gshk, or is
> in hexbin format?

    I think that's a non-issue these days.  Practically every file on
comp.binaries.apple2 and on the Apple II FTP sites is either in ShrinkIt
or Binscii format.  Who in their right mind would use gzip or lharc for
an Apple II file?  A three-letter extension on a filename tells you
right away how to unpack the file, and it doesn't take up any disk
space.  A separate text file is more difficult to maintain, takes up
room and you have to download and read the file.
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