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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Weather.shk...
- Message-ID: <ktxngdn.payner@netcom.com>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 16:54:47 GMT
- References: <9209131455.AA26764@apple.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In article <9209131455.AA26764@apple.com> FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL ("ERIC S FORD") writes:
- >I downloaded the Weather.shk file and had the same problems - neither
- >flavor of shrinkit will recognize the file. Subsequently, I used a block
- >editor to look at this file and another shk file. The normal shk file
- >started with the word NUFILE but the Weather.shk file had a stream of
- >several bytes preceding this. Apparently it was processed by some other
- >program which adds the additional info and makes it unreadable by Shrinkit.
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- Hmmm, sounds like it could be the famous Macbinary header that some
- MAC comm program adds to files. I have a program that strips them
- from GIFs, wonder if it works for other files?
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- >Eric S. Ford
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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