Re: convert Mac to Apple // files

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <5588gb$29o@news.wco.com>,
Charles T. Turley <cturley@wco.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 - with respect to unshrinking the archives it packs, via Shrinkit 
>on the Apple II's or IIGS. My advise is go to Ground to get your Apple 
>II and IIGS archives. The Ground ftp URL follows.
>
>ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/
>
>Ground has virtually everything that is offered via Caltech's Apple2 ftp 
>site, with none of the ShrinkII/unshrinkit hassles. They have a great 
>deal more than Caltech has also. IMHO - Ground is actually the most 
>comprehensive Apple II ftp site on Earth! BTW - all of the AOL Apple II 
>archives are in the process of being transfered to Ground also.
>
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.

John

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