Re: converting GS files from Mac?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Jim Harvey (harveyj@pop3.cris.com) wrote:
:   I FTP'd system 6.0.1 for my GS from the Apple site with my Mac and ended
: up with five files with the extension .bsc.  My mac reads and writes
: ProDos, so how do I go about making those files into a set of system disks
: for the GS?  I noted that the sysdisk.bsc file is 810k and will not fit on
: a 800k ProDos disk.

Just go back to ftp.support.apple.com and get the hqx versions of the disks.
Fetch will convert 'em into disk images on the fly while downloading, then 
you can use Disk Copy 4.2 to write them straight onto 800K disks on your
Mac. Really slick.

:   While I'm on the subject, I have a bunch of .shk files hanging around. 
: Is there a Mac based app that I can use to unshrink these and copy them to
: ProDos disks?

Someone was saying once that Aladdin was interested in adding NuFX to a future
version of Stuffit, but ain't heard any more about it.

:   Finally, I have a few .dsk files that were supposed to be for the GS.  I
: assume that's a disk image.  How do I convert these from my Mac to my GS?

Sounds more like disk image files for use with an Apple II emulator to me. 
There are programs around to unconvert these somewhere. 
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool