Re: sdk and sea files?

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

It's a better rule to NEVER use SDK except for DOS 3.3 floppies.

Also, if one has the option, GS ShrinkIt does a lot better job of
compressing an SHK file than 8-bit ShrinkIt does. The difference was VERY
dramatic back when I was doing the huge Genie Appleworks databases.

Tom Zuchowski


"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Tom Zuchowski writes ...
> >
> > ShrinkItGS can extract SDK files? I thought that you needed 8-bit ProDOS
> > ShrinkIt to do that.
> >
>  ....
>
>      I'm pretty sure the main limitation on GS-ShrinkIt (GSHK, ShrinkItGS)
is
> that it can not handle whole-disk archives of 5.25" DOS 3.3 disks created
by
> 8-bit ShrinkIt. Of course, this does happen to include most .sdk files.
>
>      Another problem with GS-ShrinkIt is that the whole-disk archives it
> creates are not correctly handled by Newlib when you want to convert from
.sdk
> to a disk image file.
>
>      8-bit ShrinkIt can handle GS-ShrinkIt .sdk files. So, it's probably a
good
> general rule to stick with 8-bit ShrinkIt for creating .sdk files and for
> handling conversion of .sdk files to diskette.
>
>
>
> Rubywand