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From: nakada@husc7.HARVARD.EDU (Paul Nakada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Fantavision "movies"
Message-ID: <4046@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 88 13:02:21 GMT
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In article <1922@saturn.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
:In article <4535@uwmcsd1.UUCP> aehl@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Donald J Aehl) writes:
:>Basically, what is Blu? What is the Executioner? And how can I get access
:>to these utilities.
:
:I don't know what Executioner is, but I presume it's a program that packs
:disks...Blu is a program like that too, but it packs many FILES into ONE
:FILE...
:
:However, the most widely used Packer that I know of is DDD, which stands for
:Dalton's Disk Disintegrator....Recently, there has been a new revision of
:it put out that is in ProDOS...It's called DDDPro, and will pack any type
:of disk (3.5,5.25, I also presume something like a Ramdisk if you WANTED
:to)...
:
:You should be able to get it on any local Apple bulletin board which has
:transfers...Almost ANYONE that does up/downloading in the Apple world as
:a hobbyist probably knows what it is and where you could get it. Just look
:around...

Executioner is not a program like DDD...  it converts (and maybe packs)
prodos files into prodos textfiles which can be 'exec'ed to produce
the original file (filetype included)... it is primarily used for
micro -> mini/mainframe and mini/mainframe -> micro...   DDD on the other
hand packs whole disks into binary files for transfer between two
apples...  now for a question...  anyone know of any legitimate use
of DDD??  are there really any Apple pds BBS's out there?
-paul

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