Re: More help with some GS cards.

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 21:45:11 -0500, "Bill Garber"
<willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

>The suffix actually is cosmetic. Disk archives can also
>be named .SHK, and still work just fine.

Well, I wouldn't say the filename suffix is just cosmetic.  It isn't
just there for looks, it is there to let people know a little
something about the contents of the file.  An SDK suffix tells people
that the file contains one or more compressed disk images where an SHK
suffix says that the file contains one or more compressed files.

Because it can sometimes be a hassle to make sure you have floppy
drives hooked up, and the proper size floppies as well, or set up the
right size RAM disk just to unpack an SDK file, I tend to avoid them
when I can and prefer to find a file archive version, with an SHK
extension, instead.  There are times when you need to use SDK and
those I will go through the hassles to get working but others I prefer
the SHK file instead.

So, if you have files with the wrong extension on them, people might
pass them over thinking they are what you say they are instead of what
they actually are.

All that said, I still prefer to use BXY files (a ShrinkIt file,
either SHK or SDK in a Binary II wrapper) anyway.  :-)

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