Re: Free Apple // Software!!

[ME <sfield1@ix.netcom.com>]

smtrimbl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu wrote:
> 
> Nathan wrote...
> 
> <Asimov stuff clipped>
> >
> >    There's also the fact that with gzipped disk images, the programs
> > are damn hard to unpack on anything but the emulator-only crowd, but
> > that only helps to keep Apple II piracy of crud from asimov down a
> > bit.
> 
> Well... not *really*... I assume that given the absence of GS/TCP
> SLIP/PPP & browser, most Apple II only (non-emulator) types will
> be accessing the web via lynx on a terminal server account.  Therefore,
> all one would have to do is download ("d") or print-to-disk the file on
> their account, and then "gunzip" whatever files they downloaded.
> 
> At that point the files are ready to be sent to the ][ by whatever
> protocol they usually use.  it seems to me that since the unzipping
> can be done quickly in a fast UNIX environment, it's actually easier
> for the non-emulators than it would be if the programs were stored in
> a format inacessable from the UNIX O/S.  Wouldn't files archived with
> Stuffit actually be "safer"?
> 
> For what its worth.
> Shawn

The Shareware version of WinZip unpacks all the images with no problem. 
Just Click and Unzip.