Re: Why won't ShrinkIt recognize my .SHK files?

[Tom Zuchowski <cd003508@interramp.com>]

robb@uoknor.edu (Robb Andrew Young) wrote:
>Help!
>
>I've been trying for days to expand any of a dozen .SHK files on my IIgs.
>The files were downloaded on my Mac and then copied onto a ProDOS disk via
>the "ProDOS File System" extension. 
>
>I am using UnshrinkIt+ 2.0, and every time I select a ShrinkIt archive, I
>get a message telling me that the file is not a NuFX archive. I have tried
>converting the file into TEXT, an AppleWorks 2.0 document, etc. but the
>error is still the same. What am I doing wrong?

If the files you downloaded are in fact genuine SHK files, and if they 
haven't had something stupid like a MacBinary Header attached to them, 
then UnShrinkIt+ should be able to unpack them.

If the files are GSOS files with resource forks attached then II+ Unshrink 
cannot unpack them. I don't remember what the error message would be for 
certain; I =think= it tells you it can't do forked files.

Wait a minute. I believe that the latest version is 2.1. You might want to 
get yourself a self-extracting copy of 2.1 and see if that helps.

Are you =sure= that these files haven't been uuencoded or anything like 
that?

TomZ