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: <8905251008.aa02852@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 25 May 89 14:48:04 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 >>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! One purpose of an archive is to prserve the attributes of the files IN the archive. So, in order to preserve the attributes of the archive file itself, the proposal is to archive the archive. But what happens when the archived archive is downloaded from a (for instance) Fido-BBS? Looks like the solution is to archive the archived archive... :-O 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)