Re: ShrinkIt Problems

[mattack@area.com (Matt Ackeret)]

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.
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