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Re: Appleworks GS


"Nels Bruckner" <nelsb@comcast.net> wrote in message 89062d03-5273-4121-8333-0d808495f3d1@n38g2000prl.googlegroups.com">news:89062d03-5273-4121-8333-0d808495f3d1@n38g2000prl.googlegroups.com...
On Sep 7, 4:15 pm, Alex Lee <ale...@mac.com> wrote:

On 2008-09-08 08:49:40 +1000, Drew <GoggleD...@gmail.com> said:

> On Sep 7, 10:48 pm, Nels Bruckner <ne...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Sep 7, 11:19 am, macdog <bigdog...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> Whats the best source?

>>>> --Nels

>>> Tryhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/

>>> Jamie

>> Wow, thanks.

>> That brings up another question - the image of Appleworks GS, and
>> many other GS disk images that I have found, lack a file extension.
>> I've tried renaming the file to be a .shk, .dsk, ,po, etc, but none of
>> these options results in a viable disk image. How do you deal with
>> these 'no extension' files and end up with an Apple readable disk?

>> Thanks.

>> --Nels

> Hi,

> I find that the zip files on the whatistheapple2gs site don't open
> well on PCs. I tend to use 7zip to unzip the file, and then use it
> again to unzip the file without the extension that should get you the
> four 2mg files in that archive (I have just tried it). Windows inbuilt
> zip doesnt like the files from that site. On a Mac they all open fine.
> You can get 7zip fromhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/

> Cheers
> Andrew

More specifically, the problem with the .zip files on the site seems to
be when they're downloaded with Internet Explorer 6 or 7. I will always
recommend that you browse the web with Firefox and not just for my site
either :-)
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- Alexhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/- Hide quoted text -

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    Too weird.

    I also eventually got the Appleworks GS archive to work (w/o
having to resort to Firefox, thankfully, since I find that browser to
be problematic, at best).  I found that if I open the archive using
WinRAR (though perhaps Windows built-in zip functionality would work
as well... haven't tried) and then double-click on the extensionless
file within (W/O extracting it first) and point the "open with" dialog
at the WinRAR.exe the archive will open up correctly.  When I followed
the same steps, but extracted the extensionless file first and renamed
it with a .zip extension, it did not work.

    Very bizzare.

    Thanks for the help everyone.

    --Nels
That isn't an extensionless file, it's a folder, AKA Directory. 
Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com