Re: Uploading a stack that would be controversal UPDATE

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Slick <PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I am almost finished with a biblography card. I also just noticed that a
>couple of the sounds are in the sounds folder on my hard drive, and have
>to copy the resources into the stack. No problem, it just takes time. As
>for the upload, I plan on uploading it to the FTP sites. It will be
>shrunk for Caltech and binsciied for ground.

The ground librarian wants the file as one .shk file, according to an
email he sent me.  Some people were uploading segmented binscii
files and it was causing him problems.

>The file will probably be larger than 1440K, so should I upload a
>segmented file to Ground or one large file? It doesn't make any
>difference when I use Fetch.

Have you looked at the HyperCard folder on the ground ftp server?
Your HC stack is not unique in being large.  There are HUGE
stacks there, some spanning several megs.  Don't worry...

>BTW, I haven't mentioned this stack before because I didn't think it was
>that good. But when several Wintel users saw it, they were surprised at
>what an old Apple IIGS could do. I am doing this because of their
>opinions. These people were not nearly as computer literate as I am. I
>will repeat, I didn't think it was that good. It is, however, funny.

I look forward to seeing it (at the same time, download some of
the other stacks there and continue to impress the Wintel folks).

The Apple IIGS is an amazing unit!