Re: Appleworks GS

[Nels Bruckner <nelsb@comcast.net>]

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:
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> > On Sep 7, 10:48 pm, Nels Bruckner <ne...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> On Sep 7, 11:19 am, macdog <bigdog...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>> Whats the best source?
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> >>>> --Nels
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> >>> Tryhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/
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> >>> Jamie
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> >>     Wow, thanks.
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> >>     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?
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> >>     Thanks.
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> >>     --Nels
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> > Hi,
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> > 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/
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> > Cheers
> > Andrew
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> 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