Re: not there yet (FAQ info)

[bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)]

In response to:

> 1) Get a copy of HC.BXY.FIX (S16) from your local UG.
> 2) Download any files wanted on your mac.
> 3) Xfer to your IIGS.
> 4) Run HC.BXY.FIX, selecting each file you want converted.
> 5) Unshrink the files.
> 
> It was possible, all this time, to do this operation on your
> IIGS, and nobody mentioned this obvious solution.  Amazing
> that the mac freaks are convinced that the power of their
> machine cannot be superceded by the power of the IIGS...

Point One:  Not everyone belongs to a user group.  I've been using Apple
Computers since 1984 and I've yet to join an official user group.  So
unless you belonged to a UG, you'd have NO access to this file (or even
know it existed).

Point Two:  I'm not sure that this program you mention will do everything
that ProTYPE does because you don't list exactly what HC.BXY.FIX does to
the file.

Point Three:  Is this a fix for those Apple // users who have GS's only?  I
happen to have one now, but what are the people to do/use that have only
//c's and //e's and use Shrinkit on a 5 1/4" disk?  At least ProTYPE gets
the files ready for you on the Mac end so that when you take them to the //
end, you could even transfer ready-to-unshrink files to 5 1/4" disks if you
wanted.

Last Point:  People on this group who are true dual users (Mac & Apple //)
don't subscribe to this "theory" of superiority of one machine over
another.  We use both because we love both.  Each has their use.  Period.

> 
> : I hope this will end this war, now. What should be done is to place a copy
> : of ProType in the mac folder at ground, note this in the FAQ, and then let
> : this matter be.  I request someone with access to the file upload it to
> : ground in Stuffit form, and write an email to the ground administrator
> : requesting him to place it in the mac folder.
> 
> I think HC.BXY.FIX was there all along.

I have that portion of the FAQ and no such file is mentioned.

--bj
Apple //--///--Macintosh user/supporter/collector