ShrinkIt on a DiskCopy Image Idea (it is on AOL).

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

This is a message for Randy Shackelford, Dr. Tom, and
Rubywand (the current official FAQ Keeper).

Please respond via csa2, please don't respond or send to
my email.  Thanks!

Randy, Dr. Tom, what do you two think of putting Shrinkit,
GS ShrinkIt, and UnforkIt on a DiskCopy image and
uploading it to the ground ftp server?  Imagine how much
headache this will solve.  A IIGS or IIe user with a Mac
just needs to download this disk on a Mac and use
DiskCopy to make a 3.5" disk containing all the essential
programs WHICH CAN THEN IMMEDIATELY BE USED
ON A IIGS OR IIE.

As you two know, this will once and forever end the
Nathanian roundabout fuss with bootstrapping binscii
from Basic.System.

Randy, I know you prefer ProTYPE, but don't you think
one more option is a good thing?

Dr. Tom, did you copy this file from AOL to ground
already? (Please respond via csa2, not email, thanks.)

If not, would either of you want to do it or, if not, I
can do it.  It is in the "New Files and Free Uploading"
area on the Apple II Forum.

Here is the description (Randy, feel free to bobbitize
it if you want in your reply but I think it is relevant so
people understand what I'm proposing).

>Subject:  ShrinkIt: DiskCopy Image (new)
>Author:  Various (Andy Nicholas and others)
>Uploaded By:  AFL GaryJ
>Date:  10/12/96
>
>File:  ShrinkIt.image (838843 bytes) 
>Estimated Download Time (28800 baud):  < 7 minutes
>Download Count:  69
>
>Equipment:  Macintosh and Apple IIGS, Apple IIe or Apple IIc
>with a 3.5 inch drive
>
>Needs:  Apple's DiskCopy 4.2 to extract the disk image
>
>NOTE:  DiskCopy 4.2 for the Macintosh is needed to extract this file.
>DiskCopy may be downloaded in Apple Computer's software library.
>
>NEW ON THIS UPLOAD:  UnForkIt v0.1,  7/4/94 by Ivan Drucker,
>has been added to the disk so that the resource forks added by the
>Macintosh System Software can be removed from the Apple II
>archives after they have been transferred to an Apple II machine.
>Running this program on an Apple II archive will eliminate the
>"Can't Open Forked File" message that one will get if they are
>using the ProDOS 8 version of ShrinkIt.
>
>Previous download count:  142
>
>This upload is a DiskCopy disk image of an 800k bootable
>ProDOS diskette containing the following files:
>
>PRODOS - the operating system
>SHRINKIT.SYSTEM - this file launches ShrinkIt for ProDOS 8 
>SHRINKIT - version 3.4 of ShrinkIt for ProDOS 8
>BASIC.SYSTEM - the Applesoft BASIC interpreter for ProDOS 
>GSHK - GS-ShrinkIt 1.1 (for the Apple IIGS)
>UNFORKIT0.1 - a program to remove resource forks
>(in Applesoft BASIC) by Ivan Drucker
>TYPECHANGER - a file type changing program (in Applesoft
>BASIC) by Jim Mensch
>
>System requirements:
>
>GSHK - Apple IIGS with 768k total memory FREE
>SHRINKIT - Apple IIe enhanced, IIc, IIc+, or IIGS

And to the FAQ Keeper, Rubywand (congratulations for
becomming the official FAQ Keeper, read the email from
news.answers; hey folks, Nathan is no longer the official
FAQ keeper as far as usenet is concerned), could you add
the location of this DiskCopy image to the FAQ (once it
is uploaded to ground) so that Macintosh plus Apple II
owners can better get stated using their Apple IIs?

Thank you to all three of you in advance.