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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shrinkit/Binary II stuff
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Date: 24 May 89 23:24:50 GMT
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>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?

But if the attributes are not kept intact, whole civilizations will vanish
beneath tidal waves, plagues will visit us once again, and entire
cities will be swallowed by the earth.  We can avoid this calamity by
preparing to standardize Now!

andy

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