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From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: What unpacks .BSQ files?
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.001735.10243@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 00:17:35 GMT
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In article <14266@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>I notice that most of those particular files have junk before the first
>line, which should contain "FiLeStArTfIlEsTaRt".  Perhaps editing the
>files to remove the preliminary junk would help.

Any text file that contains a "FiLeStArTfIlEsTaRt" line is a BinSCII
encoded file. BinSCII is smart enough to look over garbage and find the
data. The problem everyone is having is trying to run Shrinkit (or
BLU) on these files. The file is a text-encoded binary file. You must
run BinSCII on it first. BinSCII's output should then be unpackable by
Shrinkit no problem.

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Dave Whitney
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