Re: convert Mac to Apple // files

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <559doi$6lr@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>,
John Bowling <johnlb@primenet.com> wrote:
>>Unfortunately, Caltech appears to be using ShrinkII on a Mac (PPC I 
>>think), which has many, many bugs, I've encountered when using it on my 
>>Mac's

   Which files? Did you bother reporting this problem to Dan Zimmerman
(dmz@cco.caltech.edu) or EGO Systems, or are they automatically
throwing all email away from you due to past harassment from you?  If
you're just going to whine about things in general, you're not going
to get anything done.


>I checked out some of the things in the AOL area a couple of weeks ago,
>and some on them could not be uncompressed with the GS version of
>ShrinkIt.  Some archives with ....SHK names are not ShrinkIt archives.
>Others were corrupted, while some were fine.

   Which files? The maintainers of the archive should be told of any
problems, not random posts later on. If they can download and unpack
things fine, the problems's somewhere on your end. If they know of a
bad archive, they can either delete it or get a good copy from
elsewhere.

   [I do speak from a bit of personal experience. I'm catching 10x the
spelling errors, etc in the csa2 FAQ as anyone else. I bet others are
noticing them also, but nobody wants to bother to say anything.]

Nathan Mates

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