Re: ShrinkIt Problems

["Dr. Wolfgang Otrebski" <wolfgang.otrebski@siemens.at>]

Matt Ackeret wrote:
> 
> In article <5u7hnh$nof@clarknet.clark.net>,
> Dave Downin  <downin@clark.net> wrote:
> >I have version 3.4 of ShrinkIt on my Apple IIGS (ROM 01).  It loads and
> >runs fine, but anytime I try to decompress a .shk file it gives me an
> >error - "Can't open forked files".
> >
> >I'm downloading to my Macintosh and using ProTYPE (version 1.1) to clean
> >and convert the files onto a ProDOS disk.  This was good enough to get me
> ...
> >It's weird because if I put the ProDOS disk in my Mac and using resedit
> >check for a resource fork on the .shk files, it doesn't find one (and I
> >don't let it create one).
> 
> All Mac files have resource forks (the ResEdit message is bogus.. I was fooled
> by this until recently.. I had thought it was possible to have Mac files
> without resource forks, like on the GS.. but it isn't).
> 
> I wrote up a bug about this in the bug tracking system we use at Apple a
> while ago -- that is, a bug saying there was no way to copy files with
> PC Exchange to a ProDOS disk that weren't forked..  and since they're
> forked, they're basically unusable to 8 bit Apple II people..  The bug's
> still open.
> 
> So basically you're going to have to use ShrinkIT GS (or Balloon, the
> Finder Extension that lets you open SHK archives), or somehow nuke the
> resource fork to be able to use the 8 bit ShrinkIt.
> --
> mattack@area.com

When copying files to a prodos disk - sorry - PRODOS disk with the
finder they had a resource fork and were illegible with PRODOS 8(V4.02).

Copying worked with the filer from PRODOS running inside IIev3.o
(emulator by v.&v.tan). File copies were readable & perfect.
literally stumbled over the solution because that was the first
file transfer mac/GS(PRODOS 8) I had done and some time later
wondered why my program could not open the text file just copied ...
then remembered doing it under PRODOS, fired up IIe and Lo! ...

Have Fun,
wolfgang
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