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Zip as Transport from PC to IIgs



Ya know, I inadvertantly "discovered" something last night on a plane trip 
home while reading a copy of PC World Magazine.  DataViz sells a product 
called MacOpener 2000 for machines running Windows that actually allows you to 
use all HFS formats, except for 400K/800K floppies, on your PC while running 
Windows.  This goes not only for reading the media but also writing and 
formatting as well.  Just for giggles I put a zip disk in my Parallel Port Zip 
drive on my PC and formatted it HFS and then went down to CompUSA with some 
money burning a hole in my pocket and bought a SCSI zip 250 drive.  Lo and 
behold the disk I formatted on my PC (and subsequently copied some of the //gs 
software I downloaded to) actually worked on the //gs like a charm! 

NOW, all I gotta do is figure out how to get Shrinkit on my //gs and I think I 
am in business!  And ideas?  I've got the file downloaded as a "bin" type, but 
not sure what to do with it now.