Re: Unpacking $8001 archives

[rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY)]

In article <1993Sep8.160128.10488@pro-freedom.van.wa.us>, colbyp@pro-freedom.van.wa.us (Colby Pederson) writes:
>   I said this earlier, but anyway.  I received some public domain programs
> in the mail.  The person that sent them packed them on the disk to save
> space.  All of the files had .shk attatched to the end of them.  When I
> used ShrinkIt and GS ShrinkIt, they both said that the files were unknown
> archives.  The Show All Files command doesn't change anything.  I tried
> both ways and they still were said to be unknown archives, even though they
> are $8001.  The files are visible in both menus (Show Archives and Show All
> Files).  Is there anyway to change the $8102 (SORRY!!!, I MEANT TO SAY
> $8102 AUXILLIARY TYPES!!!) auxilliary type to the one it is supposed to
> be??? how???  Also is there any other way to unpack it???   Thanks!!!

Last I knew, $E0/$8001 was the type/auxtype for ACU archives. That's Applelink
Compression Utility. Older versions of Shrinkit were able to unpack these
archives but ACU is very much passe' so this may have been removed from newer
versions. I'm not sure it's legal to distribute ACU - it wasn't back in the
days that AOL was Applelink PE.
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Randy Shackelford
rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu