Re: ShrinkIt Problems

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

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".

   If the archive you're trying to unpack has files with resource
forks in them, you'll need to use GS-Shrinkit to unpack them. ProDOS
8, the OS Shrinkit runs under, is unable to either read or write
forked files. There are some archives without forked files that
should unpack fine.

>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 
>a working copy of ShrinkIt (it even decoded the binsci file).  I've had no 
>luck with getting ShrinkIt to deal with the .shk files that I download.

   That program only removes any resource fork crud from the actual
archive file itself. Files inside the archive may have had resource
forks for a good reason, and removing them will tend to make them not
work.

Nathan Mates
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