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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Nulib (was Re: ShrinkIt 3.0)
Message-ID: <14439@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 08:15:26 GMT
References: <1238@batman.moravian.EDU> <23210@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
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In article <23210@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andy McFadden) writes:
>In article <1238@batman.moravian.EDU> nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) writes:
>>Well, at long last, I can FINALLY announce the release date for ShrinkIt 3.0:
>>
>
>This brings up some interesting problems.
>
>NuLib as distributed does not handle some minor changes to the NuFX format.
>In fact, due to a slight misunderstanding on my part, it doesn't handle
>GS/ShrinkIt archives which follow the original NuFX format.

Doesn't handle disk archives too hot either. <core dump> :)

>NuLib v2.2 fixes the misunderstanding, but I haven't updated it to handle
>some new stuff with filenames (which turns out to be a very fatal problem,
>due to some weird design decisions on my part).
(god, I hate it when that happens.)

>While I'd like to distribute an update, I'm a little nervous about it right
>now after the flak over NuPak.  I sent a letter to Mr. Thompson on Thursday
>night, but haven't received a response yet.

Speaking of NuPak, the version I pulled off of GEnie last night sure as
heck doesn't work on Stuffit archives.  UNLESS he hard coded the selection
routine so it only works with AppleShare volumes.  Even that doesn't make
sense, because there isn't a HFS FST yet. (will there?)  I mean, what about
us folks that find, uh, ways of transfering Stuffit archives over to Prodos
disks.  Ah, well, ShrinkitGS to the rescue!  >:->

>fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
>...!ucbvax!cory!fadden

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