Re: Sick And Tired of SHK

["ruud.dingemans" <ruud.dingemans@wanadoo.nl>]

Rubywand wrote:

>      Anyway, so long as a file has not been corrupted there should be no
> problem with unshrinking whole-disk 5.25" and 3.5" (800k) ShrinkIt archives
> using 8-bit ShrinkIt on a IIgs. As mentioned earlier, one source of corruption
> is ProDOS handling by a Mac. (The file itself may not be messed up; but, its

>      Another source of corruption is downloading an .shk, .sdk, .dsk, etc. file
> in Text mode. This often happens when files are not recognized as binary type

(Sigh) Yes, I know all this. I've used about 30 different types of
computer - am not a beginner. Problem is, none
of the solutions mentioned everywhere seem to actually WORK! The Mac
keeps messin' with mah files. But how do you get it
to keep its mitts OFF these ProDOS shk's, so that you can actually
unpack 'em? Why doesn't Protype do its work and turn 'em into actually
usable files? (Changing the file type doesn't seem to do it..)

>      By the way, what is it are you trying to download and transfer to your
> IIgs?

All kinds of things, but all of it seems to be in shk format on the Net.
Which is fine as long as it's actually usable without going thru all
kinds of hoops.

Regards, RD