Extracting Lynx archives

From: Marko Mäkelä <msmakela_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:34:36 +0300
Message-ID: <20171026053436.xqom5cdja5utd6pq@hp>
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 06:32:05PM -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> The ZIP files contains LNX files. There is a LYNX8017.ZIP which 
>> unzips to a LYNX8017.GT which should be an executable file for PET 
>> with BASIC 4. Haven't tried that.
>
>Yeah.  I see that.  That util does load at $0401 and appears to be 
>compiled BASIC (petspeed)
>
>I did try using c1541 and its unlynx command, but it doesn't like the 
>files the way Ken Ross packed them.  They appear to have a BASIC stub 
>at the front telling you to use Lynx, which is likely confusing c1541 
>(I never did a lot with compressed files on Commodore machines - just 
>not enough savings to make it worth the hassle, like now).

I thought that it is the standard way how Lynx files work. It is an 
uncompressed archive format that allows in-place operation. You could 
just edit the next-sector pointers in-place to assemble or expand a Lynx 
archive.

Did you try the -l option of my cbmconvert? It supports the Lynx format.

	Marko

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