Re: Help with Sys 5 for IIGS-- Getting ShrinkIt

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

hello@kitty.com (Glue Sniffin' Ed) wrote:

>Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>
>>David Kachel writes ...
>> 
>> ....
>>
>>> I also cannot find Shrink It
>>> anywhere except as an archive shrunk by itself, which obviously I wouldn't
>>> need if I could unpack it!
>> ....
>
>Hmm....well.....I was wondering if it would be possible for me to just
>make Disk Copy 4.2 Floppy images....and e-mail the images to you...and
>you could simply use a mac to write the floppy images directly???  I
>downloaded my GS OS from the apple ftp site as diskcopy images to my
>pc.  Then...transferred the images via PC floppy to my mac.....and
>simply dropped the image files on top of my Disk Copy alias.....and
>voila'........Instant GS OS floppies.  If you want me to.....I'll
>e-mail them to you....or.....post them here if nobody objects to
>binaries being posted here.

Good idea.  It would be nice if you could make a DiskCopy image
and BinHex it, then upload it to the main Apple II ftp server:

http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/upload/

Be sure to write a text file description and upload that as a separate
.txt file.

Also please post it to comp.sys.apple2.binaries newsgroup.

Thanks!