Re: Shrinkit v4.0 for the IIe?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3kd4nr$alr@pentagon.io.com>,
Earl Cooley III <shiva@pentagon.io.com> wrote:
> I would dearly love to see an upgrade to Shrinkit for the IIe that would
> archive empty directories, and would also be able to output to multiple
> floppy disk volumes.

Even if Andy Nicholas was still working on ShrinkIt, or someone else
took it over, it is unlikely that there would be a new version with
anything significant added.

The reason: not enough memory!  ShrinkIt is within one block of the
maximum size for a SYS file.  The only way it could get more features
would be to split it up into more than one executable file, either
multiple SYS files or a SYS file with some kind of BIN overlay.

There is also the fact that there is no more spare memory to fit the
extra functions into (without using overlays or relying on a large
memory card).

ShrinkIt GS has no such limitation.
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David Empson
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