Re: Shrinkit.Exe

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Cturley2 writes ...
> 
> Adding to all of this, now that the ShrinkIt v3.4 exe file is available from
> most all of the A2 ftp sites now and from Bev's web site - download page, where
> it seems to have first become available - that problem for having it for the
> needs of non-forked ShrinkIt archives does seem to be taken care of.
> 
> Now, is there anybody out there willing to give us some clear and step-by -step
> instructions for the creation of the ShrinkIt GS v1.1 program and it's
> documentation as such an exe file, for the needs of those wanting to have it
> for its specific use - in the same way?  Is such a thing possible to do?
> 
 ....

     A self-extracting v1.1 GS-ShrinkIt ("ShrinkIt GS", "GSHK", etc.) is available
on various archive sites including Ground. Look for the file gshk.sea on Ground at
...

ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/useful.stuff/ .


     The usual snag with using an .sea file you download and transfer to your IIgs
is that it arrives as a type TXT file. So, the user will need to change the
filetype to $B3 (S16) in order to execute the file and obtain GS-ShrinkIt.

     As mentioned in the FAQs, there are many utilities which will let the user
change ProDOS filetype. In case a user has none of these, he/she can get Type
Changer from Ground (named "tchange" in the same useful.stuff folder as above) or
another site and follow the directions in tchange.info.txt to get gshk.sea going.


     Beverly's discovery of a self-extracting 8-bit ShrinkIt which does not require
any messing with filetypes offers the chance to significantly simplify things. For
example, GS-ShrinkIt could be placed in a shrinked whole-disk archive (.sdk) file.
8-bit ShrinkIt can unshrink this kind of archive with no worry about forked files
or dealing with TXT filetype of the .sdk file when it arrives on the GS.

     Basically, having an easy-to-start 8-bit ShrinkIt eliminates the need for
GS-ShrinkIt to be self-extracting.


     SHRINK.EXE is the first time I've encountered the XTRACT utility which,
evidently, was used to create an EXEC-able self-extracting version of 8-bit
ShrinkIt. Is XTRACT available somewhere on the net?



Rubywand