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From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: nulib question - type II?
Message-ID: <54338@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 91 05:55:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.111609.28889@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Jun24.111609.28889@crash.cts.com> dzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com (Daniel Zimmerman) writes:

>Well, when ShrinkIt for the Apple IIGS came out, Andy included a new format of
>NuFX compression, LZW/Type 2... I believe that it is a bit more efficient than
>LZW. He also slightly changed the format of NuFX archives, to accomodate the
>GS/OS feature of FSTs which may or may not enable ShrinkIt GS to shrink files
>from other file systems in the future. So, older programs and archive listers
>either show blanks when using a GS-ShrinkIt (or ShrinkIt 3.0 or later)
>archive, or tell you it is incompatible.

Actually, one of the main reasons that I updated the NuFX archive format such
that it forced older versions of shrinkit into showing blanks was so that
you could rename files inside an archive.  You couldn't do that with the
older format and was an oversight on my part when designing NuFX.

andy

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