Re: Zip as Transport from PC to IIgs

[Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net>]

John wrote:

> 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.

I am not sure how to get Shrinkit on your IIGS, though I did it before with a
terminal program.  I just wanted to comment on the program you found.  I am using
HFSTools for Linux and can do the same thing.  I do think there is a version for
Windows that is free also.