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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Subject: Re: GEnie Apple 2 / ShrinkIt
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Date: 14 Feb 89 02:28:56 GMT
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>Note that Don Elton had a pgm called ALU which handled BNY and LBR format
>files.  It never really caught on - I dont think it handled the squeezed
>formatted entries (it extracted them as .qq's I think didnt it don?).  Perhaps
>that is the reason that one never took off...

There'd be an irony in that since the SQUeeze and USQueeze code in
BLU is Don's! :-)  As I remember ALU (and it's been awhile), it UNPACKED,
but did not pack .BNY files (which was the reason I never adopted it).

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