Re: Zip as Transport from PC to IIgs

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John)]

Well, I managed to get Shrinkit installed on the //gs and actually quite a bit 
of other software as well now!  Today was supposed to be laundry day, but so 
far I have done little more than read the newsgroups (catching up) and 
installing software on the //gs!  <Grin>  Good thing I have tomorrow off from 
work as well! :)

In article <388A2DE5.70E0DC45@cyberhighway.net>, Frank Carney 
<frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:
>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.
>