Re: Extracting files from .dsk image

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAMS.com>]

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message
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> Ernest <leucoplast@seanet.nospams.com> wrote:
> > I have a bunch of Basis 108 user group disks that won't run on a
standard
> > Apple IIe. The disks have a menu system -I'm not sure which one- which
> > appears to modify the format of each file. For example, a file called
> > readme.txt is changed to something like readme.tqt. When you load the
disk
> > on a Basis 108, the menu system uncompresses(?) the files and allows
them to
> > be run normally.
>
> A 'q' often referred to SQueeze compression, which was incorporated into
> BLU (Binary ][ Library Utility).
>
> If you send a file to me I can poke at it.  You can also try a quick test:
> add it to a Binary ][ archive with BLU, then immediately extract it.
> (Assuming you have BLU -- it became a bit more rare once ShrinkIt showed
up.)

Doh! I found Squeeze and Unsqueeze programs that basically work OK. There's
still a bit of futzing around to make it work but the files become "mostly"
readable -if one has an imagination.

Thanks.