Subject: Re: Format for downloadable apps?
From: jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)
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In article <nipp-2712992345320001@ht0683-2.dial.wxs.nl>, nipp@planet.nl
(Pim Blokland) wrote:

> I want to make a few IIgs applications available for download on the web,
> but now I wonder what the preferred format for files is.
> I know which formats there are (BQX, BQY, BXY etc), and how to
> encode/decode them (well, most of them), and that some of them have
> pitfalls, so my question is: are some of these formats preferred over
> others? Is there maybe even a consensus about which format to use?
> 
> I've checked some FAQs, but these seem to deal only with questions like
> how to decode files of type XXX, rather than, should you avoid type XXX.
> 
> Groetjes, Pim

The commonly used formats are SHK and BXY. If you are uploading a disk
image, you can use DSK, SDK, or HDV. After converting it, you can compress
it into a ZIP or GZ file if you want. Other file formats I have rarely
seen.

There isn't anything that says you should avoid any particular format. At
least not anything I've ever seen.

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