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From: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: Frequently Asked Questions of comp.sys.apple2 (and answers!)
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Date: 22 Jan 91 14:28:03 GMT
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In article <1259@dg.dg.com> dave@mystie.webo.dg.com (David Kopper) writes:
|[Last edited on January 21, 1991]
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|I would like to thank Larry W. Virden for his help with this document.
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|========================================================================
 [large quantities of stuff trashed]
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|    BLU is the predecessor of Shrinkit.  The goal of BLU was to take
|    one or more Apple II ProDOS files and 'archive' them into a single
|    Apple II file, maintaining the ProDOS file type information.
|    It could perform a Huffman compression on the individual pieces
|    if the user so desired.
|
|    The resulting files were named Bunny files (.BNY).  BLU files
|    that were compressed were .BQY files.
|
|    The current use of BLU is in telecommunications, where the
|    filetype information is preserved.  This is why you can find
|    archives that are Shrinkit (or NuFX) archives wrapped in a
|    BLU header.

Actually, the .BXY file (which is what ShrinkIt calls them, I've never seen
it called .BNX before, but I've never been on Genie before either) is wrapped
in a Binary II header, not a BLU header.
Binary II is a public domain header by Gary Little.

|    BLU was written by Floyd Zink, Jr., of Tex fame.

BTW, what Tex fame is that? Isn't TeX the equation typesetter by Donald Knuth?
Or are you talking about another Tex?
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