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- From: SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: SEAs?
- Message-ID: <92321.173609SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:36:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: psuvm.92321.173609SAB121
- References: <92321.123328TS8RBOTW@MIAMIU.BITNET>
- Organization: Penn State University
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- Date: 16 November 1992, 17:27:17 EST
- From: SAB121 at PSUVM
- To: TS8RBOTW at MIAMIU
- Subject: Re: SEAs?
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- In article <92321.123328TS8RBOTW@MIAMIU.BITNET>, you say:
- >
- >Why are Sefl-Extracting Archives (particularly GSHK) called self-
- >extracting when they don't? That's annoying having to change the
- >file type and aux type like we have to do with GSHK. Is GSHK the
- >only SEA like that, or do all have to be manipulated? GSHK is the
- >only SEA I've ever seen.
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- >Just curious...
- > ...Tim
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- Wrong! Normally a sea archive does NOT need things set. This is just with down
- loading from a network to your II, or downloading from AOL to a MAC to your II.
- I personally downloaded it from a local BBS after a beta-tester had finally
- gotten permission to upload it, and it unpacked fine. All I did was transfer
- it in prodos mode. Bingo! :)
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- Furthermore, the problem with being unable to extract it is NOT GSHK's fault,
- but rather GSCII+ and sscii, which are currently (I believe) being fixed to
- avoid this problem. Unpacking the .bsq file with the 8 bit version of BinSCII
- set everything correctly, and all I had to do was double click.
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- The reason for this is very simple. It's called drool proof paper, and is
- necessary out here in the Real World, when you run a BBS or some other system
- for fun/profit, and have people new to the telecom world running around on it!
- This way all they have to do is point and click instead of having to:
- EXEC GSHK.TXT, check to make sure that the file type is correct, or worse,
- download it without the manuals, because you can't unshrinkit the whole archive
- so all they get is the executable, THEN learn how to use it properly. For
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