Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Shrinkit/Binary II stuff Message-ID: <8905241436.aa00510@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 24 May 89 15:59:46 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 >The purpose it would serve would be to insure that the NuFX archive itself >would maintain its attributes. If the IIgs Finder is modified to launch >ShrinkIt when a user double-clicks on a ShrinkIt archive, then this >feature for the user will stop working. > >Ideally you would have to have all terminal programs identify a NuFX file and >restore their attributes based on that, but otherwise, having the TERMINAL >PROGRAMS worry about Binary II is the most effective alternate solution. I don't think one size is EVER going to fit all. These days, I download almost exclusively from this net, which means everything is BinSCII'd or Executioner'ed so when I EXEC, I get whatever ProDOS filetype the encrypted file had. However, if I download with XModem from a local IBM (or even C-64) bbs (as I have been known to do, at least once-upon-a-time) the file WILL be stored as a TXT (even though all 8-bits are preserved). If I happen to have "smart" XModem commware (I don't) that notices while the file is being received that it's a BNY, BQY, or NuFX and creates the appropriate file attributes, that's cool. HOWEVER, what's simple, easy, and MUCH LESS CONFUSING is being able to just execute BLU or ShrinkIT and have it ignore the fact that the downloaded file happens to be a TXT (I gather from Andy's comments that such is the case with ShrinkIT, and I know BLU ignores the filetype and the fact that TXT files have a 'start' address of $0000). Why not just have the next version of ShinkIT (and BLU for that matter) check the filetype and if it's TXT (or something else that's not correct) offer the user the option of changing (correcting) it? If ShinkIT (and BLU) are going to be general purpose Apple 2 utilities, isn't worrying about 'automagically' launching ShrinkIT when a recently downloaded archive is double-clicked a trifle exotic? Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)