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What archivers do I need to know about?

April 26, 2017archivers

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What archivers do I need to know about?

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There are two programs you will need to have an be familiar with to get software off the net. They are BinSCII and ShrinkIt. ShrinkIt is like PKZIP on the PC, or STUFFIT on the mac.: It puts multiple files into one compressed archive. This way, you can get the program, documentation and related files in one swoop. Unfortunately, USENET can only handle text, not 8-bit binary information. Thus the need for BinSCII, which can take a file (usually a ShrinkIt file) and turn it into a series of meaningless letters, numbers and punctuation. This text travels thru USENET to you, where you need BinSCII to turn back into data that the computer can actually use.