Re: HyperCard IIGS?

[RIMJB@ttacs3.ttu.edu (Bartell, Mike)]

In <3i9qsa$ajs@condor.ic.net> platkus@falcon.ic.net writes:

> Lim Thye Chean (ltchean@iss.nus.sg) wrote:
> > First, thanks to everybody who points me to ftp.support.apple.com to get
> > the HCIIGS bxy files.
> 
> > But, now please HELP!!! I cannot get any of the files to work! This is my
> > story:
> 
> > I am not able to upload/download software to/from my host machine and IIGS.
> > So I have to go a long way:
> 
> > 1. I ftp all 6 bxy files from the Apple sites. I even switch on the bin mode.
> > 2. I copy all the files from my host machine (Sun 10) to 2 1.44MB PC formatted
> >    disk. (This includes some other Apple II related downloaded files)
> > 3. Go to a Mac, format 6 disks in 800K ProDOS and copy all the files in the
> >    1.44MB PC formatted disk to them.
> > 4. Back to GS, copy all the files into harddisk - and ShrinkIt cannot 
> >    recognize any of the 6 bxy HCIIGS files! But other downloaded files work!
> > 5. Desparate, I try to read what it in the bxy files. Using raw data mode
> >    in ShadowWrite, the files are forked! The resource are empty, however.
> > 6. Copy out the data fork also cannot work.
> 
> > Please help! The whole process take more than an hour and I cannot get anything
> > to work, it is very irritating. Thanks for any help!
> 
> > --
> >           Lim Thye Chean: Lim is my surname. My name is Thye Chean.
> 
> 
> Hey Thye Chean,
> 
> I don't think your process is at fault.  I've ftp'd them to my unix
> account and downloaded them directly onto my GS, and I get the same
> end result that you do.  I think that the files are still messed up
> on the ftp site.  
> 
> But, one of your steps involve a Mac.  So, why don't you just download
> the Mac archived format and decode to 800k disks on the mac?
> 
> 
> -Shawn
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>    /  Shawn Platkus                    ||  Compuware Corporation            \
>    \  platkus@ic.net                   ||  Shawn_Platkus@compuware.com      /
>     \---------------------------------/  \---------------------------------/

I have sucessfuly gotten the files from the FTP site.  They are compressed disk
images.  You have to uncompress them twice on the Mac.
The disk images made the second time work on the IIGS 
(I think it would be nice if there was an easier way to do it)
Mike Bartell