Re: Computist Issue 30

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org.is.invalid (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <c1g0ph$13u$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>,
ground.ecn AppleII Librarian <apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>Sorry to those I offended.  My pet peeves on cba2: yEnc files and rar
>files and yEnc encoded rar files exacerbate the irritation.

There are cross-platform yEnc decoders available...try this one, for
instance:

http://yydecode.sourceforge.net/

As for self-extracting RAR archives, you might try this:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/unrar/

I suspect it can unpack self-extracting RARs (but I haven't tried it, so
don't quote me on it).  That said, self-extracting archives only waste
bandwidth and pose a virus risk, so it would be better if they weren't
posted.

>Binscii is the standard for cba2, IMHO.  When apple2 programs are written
>to handle yEnc posts and decompress rar files I will ease up on the
>standards.

That much is true for stuff you can run on an Apple II, but I don't think
you'll be reading Computist scans on a II (unless you know of an image
viewer that handles JPEG or PNG or whatever these scans use).

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