Re: GS to write Mac 800k disks

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:

>Okay, I am not crazy.  I checked it and you CAN use Shrinkit on the IIgs to
>shrink HFS disks.
>
>Here is how I checked it:
>    First I made a HFS disk using GSOS.
>    Then I used Shrinkit to create a disk image.
>    Finally I used Shrinkit to make a new disk from the image.
>
>Results:
>    The original disk is identical to the second disk.  IIgs recognizes
>them both as HFS volumes with identical names!
>
>could someone do this?
>    if someone has a IIgs and the Mac system 6.0.8 disks then they
>only need to run Shrinkit to make the images.  I know I am asking for time,
>but I will make them available on my website for anyone else who needs
>them.  Thanks.

I do not have a Mac so can't help you with this, but I just
want to point out that this is a very practical approach.  In
fact, Apple distributed HyperMover this way.  HyperMover
comes on two disks, one ProDOS 800k disk for the IIGS
and one HFS 800k disk for the Mac.  BOTH were available
as .shk files.  BOTH could be extracted with ShrinkIt! on
the IIGS.  Once the HFS disk was extracted, you took
it to the Mac to run the Mac HyperMover stack with Mac
HyperCard.

So it does indeed work.