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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Nulib (was Re: ShrinkIt 3.0)
Summary: stuffit, etc
Message-ID: <1247@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 20 Mar 90 14:02:27 GMT
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Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
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> 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!  >:->

NuPak doesn't recognize stuffit files without the macbinary II header
or without the 32byte header that America Online tacks onto the file when
you download it.  In other words, it doesnt recognize a "straight" stuffit
file. (gsshk does).  NuPak also gags when unpacking certain stuffit files...
I spent a whole weekend making sure that gs/shrinkit doesn't.

andy

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