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From: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: Apple II compatible pack/unpack src pgm?
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Date: 23 Nov 90 21:26:23 GMT
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In article <6893@plains.NoDak.edu> msuacm@plains.NoDak.edu (MSU ACM Student Chapter) writes:
>have a filestart attribute that you (maybe it's just me) can read.  The
>file length attribute is no problem for either PC's or Unix's but I think it's
>the lack of relevent data that's stored in Unix/PC directories that makes
>a Unix/PC binscii just vaporwear for the time being.

The fact that UNIX and MeSsy-DOS don't use true filetypes is
irrelevant.  I have NuLib running on a Sun-3.  When you create a NuFX
(read: ShrinkIt) archive with NuLib, you can specify the filetype (and
auxtype, I think) that gets stored in the archive.  You can even set
an environment variable to provide a default; a "setenv NULIBOPT
filetype=TXT" will tell NuLib to archive files as text files unless
you tell it otherwise.

(BTW, I noticed one funny thing about NuLib:  it runs under UNIX (in
my installation, anyway), but it makes the archive look as if it was
created under ProDOS.  Will ShrinkIt only work with archives that were
created under ProDOS?)


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