Re: Shrinkit GS

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

william strutts <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote in message
news:yqkS6.18280$DG1.3676772@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com...
> Is Shrinkit GS shareware or Freeware?  If so, does anyone
> know of where you can get a version of it to be downloaded
> so that it can be opened on a machine without it?  All of the
> versions I have found are in shrinkit GS format and can't
> be unpacked using 8-bit shrinkit.  I have tried serveral
> versions of it but they all contained forked files which
> can't be unpacked using the older version.
> --

I forgot how I did it, so I checked the faq:

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html#003

Getting GS-ShrinkIt

     If you do not already have Balloon or an earlier version of
GS-ShrinkIt, there are
several ways to get GS-ShrinkIt going once a file is downloaded and
transferred to
your IIgs. Here are the two easiest ways:


A. The Self-Extracting (.sea) version

     A IIgs .sea file is a IIgs application which self-extracts the file
contents when executed
from the usual Finder desktop display. Since the file gshk.sea will, most
likely, arrive
as a Text type file, you will need to change the file's filetype to $B3
(S16) before it can
be executed.

     Several utilities can change ProDOS filetype. If you do not have one,
you can download
tchange.bin and follow the directions* in tchange_info.txt  to get it going
on your Apple II.

     You can find GS-ShrinkIt in an .SEA file (e.g. gshk.sea) and
tchange.bin on several
archive sites. See Q&A 007 below.


B. The Shrinked Disk (.sdk) version

     GSUTILS.sdk is a shrinked whole-disk file which can be unshrinked to
800k 3.5"
diskette using 8-bit ShrinkIt (or GS-ShrinkIt).  If booted, this diskette
starts a bare-bones
System 6.0.1 and launches GS-ShrinkIt.

     Besides GS-ShrinkIt, also on the disk (in .shk files) are the ZLINK
shareware
telecom utility and ASIMOV for converting .dsk files. Coolwriter (for
reading Text) is on
the disk as a non-shrinked file. All of these can be copied to hard disk or
to other diskettes.

     GSUTILS.sdk is available in Ground's useful.stuff/ folder. 8-bit
ShrinkIt in a
self-extracting version can be found in the same folder.  (See Q&A 007
below.)