Re: Converting disk images to floppies....

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

> Actually, you don't have to uncompress them on the Mac or PC.  There
> is a program for Apple IIs called gz2pkz or something very similar
> that will convert a .gz file to a .zip file that you can use other
> Apple II utilities (like UnZip IIe, Angel or Agate, PMPUnzip, or one
> of several unzip shell utilities) to unpack them.
> 
> At least, gz2pkz has worked for me the few times I've used it.  It
> seems to me that there were one or two people that it didn't work for
> but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Just to poke this in, but...I think zip and gz are very close in format,
except zip being an archive format and .gz being single-file
compression...(a friend of mine wrote a simple GZ compress/expander for
MacOS) I don't know why I brought this up, except for the fact that I was
under the impression that most zip programs could handle gz as well...