Updates to NufxLib/NuLib2 and CiderPress

[David E. Smith]

[ This is a repost of the following article: ]
[ From: Andy McFadden <fad...@fadden.com> ]
[ Subject: Updates to NufxLib/NuLib2 and CiderPress ]
[ Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.emulators.apple2 ]
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Version 2.0.1 of NuLib2/NufxLib is now available at http://www.nulib.com/.
The update adds three items:

- Leading junk on ShrinkIt archives is ignored. Many archive files on
FTP sites have either a MacBinary header or a bit of HTTP traffic
prepended. If a file doesn't look like an archive, NufxLib will scan
through the first 1024 bytes to find the actual start.
- Bad option lists are handled. It appears that some files archived by
GS/ShrinkIt from HFS volumes are stored with truncated GS/OS option
lists. The previous version would detect the problem and refuse to
open the archive. The new version includes a workaround that simply
ignores the damaged option lists (which appears to be what GSHK does).
- Mac OS X goodies. Eric Shepherd added some code for handling resource
forks and file types to the NufxLib library.

Version 1.2.3 of CiderPress is also now available from the faddenSoft
web site at http://www.faddensoft.com/. The only substantive change
was a minor update to Pascal disk handling -- "xdsk" files are now given
the ProDOS "BAD" file type -- but the distribution includes an updated
NufxLib DLL file with the above changes.

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