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

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

Robb Andrew Young (robb@uoknor.edu) 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?

There are three possibilities which I can think of:

	1) The Macintosh is adding a resource fork to your archive,
	thus foiling attempts to read it.

	2) The Macintosh is adding a header to your file (usually
	256 bytes) which prevents the program from understanding
	the archive format.

	3) Uhh, I just forgot, so you'll have to read the followups
	to this message.

Tilghman