Re: Shrinkit Question

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:

: The proper way to extract GS programs is to use GS Shrinkit...
: which, incidentally, is able to extract .shk archives directly from a
: Mac without the need to mess around with Protype...GS/OS and
: GS Shrinkit does not care if Netscape Mac attaches an rComment
: resource to the archive!  Remember, GS/OS and Mac OS share
: extended files in common...GS Shrinkit does not care what MacOS
: does to file archives and 8-bit Shrinkit can't extract forked files
: WITHIN an archive just like it can't read an archive at all if MacOS
: has extended ("forked") it...

This is stupid advice. Why have a useless resource fork wasting disk space
(especially if you plan to keep archives long term) when it's not needed
and is so easy to get rid of? Do you have some personal reason for wanting
to leave resource forks attached to archive files?
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