Re: .sdk files

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Unfortunately that's incorrect. A DOS 3.3 disk image put on a ProDOS
disk with a Mac produces "Can't open forked file" every time when
trying to unpack with shrinkit v3.4.
GS Shrinkit might open it as long as it's not a DOS 3.3 disk image done
with the 8 bit shrinkit.

Supertimer wrote:

>
> Before scores of people start saying a Mac or IIGS added a resource
> fork to the ARCHIVE, let's analyze this error.

>
> IF the resource fork were on the ARCHIVE, then yes a Mac probably
> put it there.  However, this would generate an *I/O ERROR* and NOT
> a "can't extract file with resource fork" error.  The ONLY time you
> get this error with ShrinkIt v3.4 is if you try to extract a IIGS file that's
> been archived with GS ShrinkIt which contains a resource fork.  In
> that case, the fork would be WITHIN the archive in one of the archived
> files.
>
> You CANNOT use ProTYPE or Unforkit or whatever to cut off this
> resource fork.  Besides, since the file is a IIGS program or data file
> that NEEDS this resource fork, removing it will render the file useless.
> Thus, the ONLY answer to the above question:
>
> That file was NOT meant for a IIe or ShrinkIt v3.4.  It was meant for
> a IIGS.  You need GS ShrinkIt (preferably version 1.1) to unshrink it.