Re: hypercard 1.1

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

Brian D. Uhreen (bduhreen@freenet.calgary.ab.ca) wrote:
: hej all,
: 	I got in to apple's software updates the other day and found that
: hypercard 1.1 for the IIGS was in there.  Now there was two different
: types of compresions in folder.  There was a bxy and a hqx format.  I
: didn't know which to get so I got both of them.  The finder told me that
: the bxy format was a applesingle compresion type method. I loaded it into
: GSHK and it told me that is was a unknown or and unsupported format.  The
: hqx I decompressed with GScii+ and all it left me with was a binary file. 
: 	I looked at both files and they seemed to both be created on a 
: macintosh.  Am I going to need a mac to decompress these files?

If you have access to a TCP connected Mac it's mondo easy to get the disks.
You just run fetch to get the files, then un-SEA them if need be (some files
are self-extracting diskdoubler archives) then run Disk Copy to put the images
onto 800K disks.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool