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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="4">Archive Info</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">The Archive Info command in the "File" menu provides a way to view information about the currently open disk image or file archive.&nbsp; The set of information shown depends on the kind of file currently open.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="3"><B>NuFX (ShrinkIt) Archive</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Filename:</B> the name of the file that is currently open.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Format: </B>archives can be plain ShrinkIt archives (NuFX), wrapped in a Binary II wrapper (usually named .BXY), GS/ShrinkIt self-extracting (.SEA), or GS/ShrinkIt self-extracting in a Binary II wrapper (.BSE).</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Records:</B> the number of records in the archive.&nbsp; Each file, whether forked or not, occupies one record.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Master Version:</B> the master version number of the NuFX archive.&nbsp; This can be useful when trying to determine if an archive is from a really old version of ShrinkIt.&nbsp; The most current version is 2.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Created:</B> the date and time when the archive was created, if available.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Modified:</B> the date and time when the archive was last modified.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Junk Skipped:</B> the number of bytes skipped over when scanning for the start of the archive.&nbsp; NufxLib skips over MacBinary headers and the leftover HTTP junk that seems to show up in files on some FTP sites.&nbsp; Most other NuFX applications, e.g. ShrinkIt, do not, so this can explain why an archive won't open on an Apple II.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="3"><B>Disk Image</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Filename:</B> the name of the file that is currently open.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Outer Format:</B> the name of an external "wrapper", if any; usually gzip (.gz) or zip (.zip).</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">File Format:</B> the overall format of the disk image file.&nbsp; Common formats are 2IMG (.2MG) and unadorned (.PO, .DO, .DSK).</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Physical Format:</B> internal layout of the file.&nbsp; Most files are "cooked" sectors, but some are in a nibble format.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">The Sub-Volume box shows the name of the volume that the rest of the information applies to.&nbsp; Most disks don't have sub-volumes, and the box will be greyed out.&nbsp; UNIDOS 800K disks, Macintosh-style partitions, CFFA cards, and ProDOS disks with embedded DOS images will have entries here.&nbsp; Selecting a different entry will change the information below.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Sector Ordering:</B> sector layout within the image.&nbsp; Most disks use DOS (.DO) or ProDOS (.PO) order.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Filesystem Format:</B> the type of filesystem on the disk, e.g. DOS 3.3, ProDOS, Pascal.&nbsp; For "hybrid" disks, such as DOS3.3/ProDOS mixed on a 5.25" disk, only the dominant filesystem will be shown.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Files+Directories:</B> the number of files and directories on the disk.&nbsp; For ProDOS the count includes the volume directory.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Storage Capacity:</B> how many blocks or sectors the disk can hold.&nbsp; In some cases, such as an 800K disk image copied to a 32MB CFFA partition, a second number will be shown indicating the maximum size of the disk image area.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Free Space:</B> how much free space is on the disk.&nbsp; For formats like CFFA, which just hold other disk images, this is meaningless.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Writable Format:</B> says whether or not CiderPress is capable of adding and deleting files on disks with this format.&nbsp; Currently this is "yes" for DOS 3.3, ProDOS, and UCSD Pascal.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Damaged: </B>this indicates whether or not CiderPress believes the disk is damaged.&nbsp; If it does, the disk will be marked read-only, and attempts to add or delete files will be blocked.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Notes:</B> if CiderPress detects damage or other anomalies when scanning the disk, they wll be noted here.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">More information about the different disk formats can be found <A HREF="t18.htm">here</A>.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="3"><B>Binary II Archive</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Filename:</B> the name of the file that is currently open.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Records:</B> the number of entries in the Binary II archive.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="3"><B>AppleLink Compression Utility Archive</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Filename:</B> the name of the file that is currently open.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Records:</B> the number of entries in the ACU archive.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="3"><B>AppleSingle file</B></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Filename:</B> the name of the file that is currently open.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:-17pt;margin-left:17pt;"><SPAN STYLE="margin-left:-17pt;text-indent:0pt;width: 17pt"><FONT FACE="Symbol" SIZE="2"><B> </FONT></span><FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="2">Info:</B> a few facts about the file.</FONT></P>
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