Re: Forked files and Shrinkit

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <396E3439.EF9F65E0@mailcity.com>, Cat Fud 
<catfud@mailcity.com> wrote:

>     I also use ProType on my Mac to set the correct type for an Apple II
> files.  But when I open the files in Shrinkit, sometimes I get a forked 
> file inside the Shrinkit file, which Shrinkit won't decompress.
>     I use ProDos 8 & Shrinkit, and have tried it on an enhanced Apple
> IIe and
> an Apple IIgs (ROM 01).  Neither of them work on the forked files inside 
> the Shrinkit file.
>     From reading all the messages, I think that I may have to get System
> 5 or later for the IIgs.  Any comments on this?

Yep.  Also ShrinkIt GS.  (Commonly named GSHK.)  System 6.01 would be
highly recommended.  If a file in a shrinkit archive has a resource
fork, it's likely a IIGS file and is required for the file (or at
least contains information pertinent to the file, like with a teach
file).

Greg B.
-- 
Note:  To e-mail me, replace nobody with gjb
I don't get junk e-mail and intend to keep it that way.
If you want to send me spam, go jump off a cliff and make
the world a nicer place.