Re: Shrink, Newbie question

[voss@i40s16.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)]

In article <24ankj$hvi@kbad.eglin.af.mil>, gus@eglin.af.mil (Eric P. Augustus) writes:
|> Thanks for all those who replied about where to get comm programs for an
|> Apple IIe.  I picked up a couple of shareware comm programs from cco.caltech.edu.
|> The programs all had extensions .shk.  My newbie question is 'How do I unshrink
|> these programs?'  I looked in the util directory and found what looked like
|> utilities to do this, but they had extensions .bsc.  What is a .bsc file?

Time again to grab the FAQs:
Extension   What is it?  (What program do I use?)
---------  ---------------------------------------------------------------
    .SHK   NuFX archive. (Shrinkit)
    .BSC   BinScii file. [TEXT]  (BinScii)

In short a .BSC file is a binary file that has been transformed into a text
file because some terminal programs interpret bytes with values below 0x80
(or was it 0x20?) as control codes. The transformation avoids this 
misinterpretation.

|> 
|> Any help would be appreciated.
|> 

Stefan Voss
(voss@ira.uka.de)