Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: .bsq
Message-ID: <43149@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 25 Jan 91 15:33:47 GMT
References: <398@generic.UUCP>
Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
Reply-To: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
Lines: 25

In article <398@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
>From THINGVOL@LAX.WISC.EDU:
>
>> Why don't Binscii files end in .bnc instead of .bsq??
>
>    Because .bsq files are SQuuezed files using the SQ/USQ algorithm developed
>by Don Elton (Dean Elton?  Elton John?  Anyway...)  I always labelled Binscii
>files with a .bsc extension.

Well, .bsq files are now Binscii'd Shrunk files. Perhaps they used to be
BinScii'd BLU files.

>Brian T. Tao  {taob@pnet91.cts.com} ||  Computer guru?  Someone who got
>University of Metro Toronto         ||  their computer a couple of weeks
>Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8         *B-) ||  before you did.  (Alvin Toffler)

BTW, my email address has changed..
It's now daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu


-- 
David Huang                                 |
Internet: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu        |     "My ganglion is stuck in
UUCP: ...!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!ifar355 |      a piece of chewing gum!"
America Online: DrWho29                     |