Re: Newbie Question: Extracting GS/OS in SEA format

["CybrSlider" <cybrslider@home.com>]

Paul,

    Thank you. I will try it. I have DiskCopy already.

    Everyone, thank you for the input. I really appreciate it! If I can't
solve this problem with all of the input I've received, I should not be
using a computer! Ha! Thanks!

David
<paul_demarni@telus.net> wrote in message
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> In article <Pmir5.113915$6y5.76446834@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>,
>   "CybrSlider" <cybrslider@home.com> wrote:
> > Well, that's part of the problem. I don't have Shinkit for the 8-bit
> or GS.
>
>
> From one Newbie to another,
>
>  I was in the same predicament a few weeks back. A IIGS, no software
> whatsoever and only a PC on the 'net. I had success using TransMac on
> the
> PC, but I downloaded the Macbinary version of the disks from Apple's
> site, not the .hqx ones. Once downloaded on your PC, on TransMac after
> you select copy file, select Data. Move this disk to your Mac (I had a
> Classic) and
> you should get a icon to click on, the .sea file. Click it a couple of
> times, and you should end up with a file (looks like a blank page) that
> is approximately 800K long.
>
> Don't click on this file as it is a DiskCopy Image. Get DiskCopy on your
> Mac, 2 different versions depending on what your system version is. Both
> versions are downloadable from Apple. Once Diskcopy is running, get to
> where it lets you load an image file. Select the 800K version that the
> .sea file created, DiskCopy should recognize it as a PRODOS image. Hit
> make a copy, put in a disk and you should be in business. I plugged the
> Apple 3.5 drive from the GS into my Classic. This was the easy part. To
> solve the Shrinkit chicken and egg scenario, I found a Mac
> archived - DiskCopy image with both versions of Shrinkit and a few
> other goodies at ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Mac/
> I think this image was in .hqx, so set TransMac to binhex?, and then use
> Stuffit to translate it once it is in the Mac. Again you should end up
> with an approx 800K file that you use DiskCopy to write out.
>
> Just learning Apple myself,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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