Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Binscii+ShrinkIt? Message-ID: <9105120442.AA23214@apple.com> Date: 12 May 91 04:35:03 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 33 On Sat, 11 May 91 20:11:56 GMT Brian Tao said: >From MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET: > >> I move that we start using .BNS for 'binscii/shrinkit' files considering >> that .BSQ was a popular subfix for Binary II squeezed files. > > As far as the files I find on FTP sites like tybalt, the .bsq extension >means ShrinkIt+Binscii. Correct... > I've never actually seen *just* a SQueezed file OK... Actually, that was SQ3 I -think-. I haven't seen many of those. >(Binary II, yes, but not SQZ'd). I used to get lots & lots of Binary II + squeezed files all the time. Their extension was .BSQ. >I'm quit happy with =.bsq for ShrinkIt+Binscii, I'm sure you would be if you don't ever come accross the old .bsq files, but the new .bsq conflicts with the original .bsq. I don't think it's that big of a deal, really, but thought it would be a good suggestion. >Brian T. Tao *B-) | taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca | "Though this be ---------------------------------------- BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com