From cturley2@aol.com Tue Feb 15 09:41:33 CST 2000 Perhaps this will help you! Extension What is it? (What program do I use?) ------ --------------------------------------------------------------- .SHK NuFX archive. (Shrinkit) .SDK NuFX with a shrunk disk image. (Shrinkit) .EXE Executioner file [TEXT]. May only work in DOS 3.3. .Z Compressed file (GS Shrinkit or Unix uncompress) .TAR Unix Tape Archive (Unix tar [with -xvf option, GS EXE tar]) .TXT [TEXT] An ASCII text file: usually english text. .AAF [TEXT] Apple Archive Format for source code (aaf.unpacker) .UU Unix uuencode file [TEXT] (uudecode or Unix uudecode) .GIF Graphics Interchange Format: Compressed picture. (IIGIF for //e, many programs for all other computers) .LZH LZH Archive (IBM/Amiga LZH program) .LHA LHA Archive (IBM/Amiga LZH program) .QQ BLU archive. (Shrinkit) .BSC BinScii file. [TEXT] (BinScii) .BSQ BinScii'ed NuFX file. [TEXT] (BinScii, Shrinkit on the result) .BXY NuFX archive with a Binary II header. (Shrinkit) .BNY BLU archive. (Shrinkit) .BQY NuFX with BLU header. (Shrinkit) .BNX NuFX with BLU header. (Shrinkit) .ACU NuFX (Shrinkit) .HQX Mac BinHex file. [TEXT] (BinHex on Mac or GSCII+) .SIT Mac StuffIt archive. (Stuffit on Mac or GS ShrinkIt) GS Shrinkit will not decode StuffIt Deluxe files. .CPT Compactor Pro archive (Compactor Pro on a Mac only) .SEA Self-extracting archive (Might be Mac, Might be Shrinkit archive) .ARC IBM Archive (GS Shrinkit or DeArc2E or IBM Arc program) .ZOO IBM Zoo Archive (GS Shrinkit??? or IBM ZOO program) .ZIP IBM Zip Archive (UNZIP [GS Shell EXE]or IBM PKUNZIP or Unix unzip) .JPEG Newer graphics format. (only Unix/IBM/etc viewers) .JPG Newer graphics format. (only Unix/IBM/etc viewers) .TIFF Graphics format (GS SHR Convert) All of these types, except the ones marked [TEXT] are BINARY files. You can FTP them only if you set 'type binary'. ------------------------------------------ Cheers, Tom From jonrelay@napanet.net Thu Nov 1 10:19:46 CST 2001 "Lazarus I. Long" wrote in message news:B7FF0EEB.B37B%lazarus.long@adobe.com... > I'm looking for tech info about how to translate an Apple II file type & > auxType to a macintosh file type and creator. I know there are 2 methods: > 0xPPTTAAAA and 0xH1H22020 where PP is the character 'p', TT is the Apple II > file type, and AAAA is the A2 aux type. the other method, H1 and H2 are the > 2 hex digits of the a2 file type and the 2020 are just 2 spaces. the > question is, do we simply loose the aux type in the second method? There's also a third one, PXXX where XXX is the mneumonic for the file type. I've never heard of the second one you mention, though. Yes, you do lose the auxilary type. It's assumed to be $0000 in that case. Not that many file types use the aux type, though. If you need a complete listing of file types, try: http://www.geocities.com/jonrelay/software/a2info/abftypes.htm -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----