Re: Help with a new //gs...(me too!)

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

jdeeley writes ...
> 
> > This realy is what I ment by #2, ie. getting them with my mac then turning
> > them into a //e or //gs floppy. What's this gummy easy method? :)
> 
> Add my plea to that one. I have a boot disk, but I can't for the life of me
> get a floppy from a modern Mac with a file for a IIGS to work.
> I got as far as getting the IIGS to recognize the floppy, but it wouldn't
> recognize the files as applications. ....


     Most likely, the explanation is that the files are not applications. GS 
stuff is, usually, maintained in .SHK form on ftp sites. An .SHK file will 
contain one or more files and these will, almost always, be compressed.

     When an .SHK file makes it to your GS, it may or may not actually have 
the .SHK file type. This should not matter. Run GS-ShrinkIt (also called 
"ShrinkIt-GS" or "GSHK"). If, when you try to do an open archive on the 
diskette, the file does not show up as a choice, tell the program to show "all 
files" and select the .SHK file you want to un-Shrink. If the file is in good 
shape, you will be able to un-Shrink any files it contains.


     If there is some problem-- e.g. if GS-ShrinkIt says the file is "damaged" 
the following may help ...

     .SHK files should be downloaded as binary files. You do not want your Mac 
download software to interpret the ".SHK" file type suffix and do any special 
messing around with the files. (For example, you do not want some Netscape 
"Helper" application to try to unpack the files.)

     If a downloaded .SHK file is the same size as the .SHK file listed on the 
ftp site, things are, probably, going well. (If, for some reason, a downloaded 
.SHK file shows up as a TXT type file, it may be a good idea to change the 
file type to BIN before moving it to diskette.)

     Once you get a downloaded .SHK file onto a standard 800k ProDOS diskette 
without having it change size or otherwise get messed around, there is a good 
chance that it will be un-Shrinkable on your GS using GS-ShrinkIt.


Rubywand