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Re: Why *.bsq.Z - How about *.SHK ?



In article <C7nnJq.7L7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires ) writes:
> dbrown@csusb writes:
> 
>>	BinSCII does increase file sizes by about 35%.  In the bargain,
>>however, you convert the file to 7-bit text, which can either be posted to
>>comp.binaries.apple2 or E-Mailed to just about anywhere.  That's the point of
>>BinSCII.  Yes, the application is inconvenient to use; that's why I use GScii
>>except when it hoses the .SHK files.
> 
> I've never had GScii hose a .SHK file...a .SEA file, yes.

It sets the aux type on NuFX files to $8102 instead of the proper $8002 a lot
of the time. Not really "hosed" but the files don't show up in the SHOW
ARCHIVES file list unless their names end with .shk when the aux type has the
wrong value.

Randy
rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu