Re: compression/conversion

[guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: In article <32E44389.1DA0@pacbell.net>, Scott  <drkildare@tmbg.org> wrote:
: >does anyone else find it ironic that you need binscii to de-code
: >shrinkit, and shrinkit to uncompress binscii? specifically:
: >http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca:80/Services/PDA/AppleGSCompression.html

:    I don't care as much what's on that page, but the comp.sys.apple2
: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) at
: http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html has extensive notes
: (section 5) on how to get Binscii to your machine without a
: preexisting copy of either binscii or shrinkit, just a way to get a
: file to a ProDOS disk. Once that's done, Shrinkit's easy, and you're
: in business.

Since Scott appears to have a gs, he may also choose the direct approach.
Download GSHK.sea from ftp.uni-kl.de, it's a self-extracting archive
which will automatically create ShrinkItGS for you. If you download from
a non-apple System, you will have to restore the filetype of GSHK.sea to
S16 first.

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