Re: SEAs?

[bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)]

Radagast <TS8RBOTW@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:

>Why are Sefl-Extracting Archives (particularly GSHK) called self-
>extracting when they don't?  That's annoying having to change the
>file type and aux type like we have to do with GSHK.  Is GSHK the
>only SEA like that, or do all have to be manipulated?  GSHK is the
>only SEA I've ever seen.
 

  Most GSHK archives posted to the Internet lose their file/auxtype
settings.  When posted to a pay online service like GEnie or AOL,
these settings are preserved, either automatically (like AOL) or
by using the Auto-Binary II and Auto-UnBinary II options in Proterm
(GEnie).

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