Re: Convert Appleworks 3.0 Files to MS-DOS

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>>Well, I found the type changer program, and ran it, and I find that
>>shrinkit needs system 5.0.4 or later.  I have system 2.  I downloaded
>>all the files for system 6, loaded them up, and the installer freezes
>>on Disk 1.  It says that it can't load the instruction set (or
>>something along those lines).  I'm guessing that there either isn't
>>enough memory in my IIGS for System 6 or I my ROM version is too old
>>(rev 01).  Oh well.  I'll either have to pay someone to do this or do
>>it manually.  Ugh.
> 
> You must be running ShrinkItGS.

Sounds like he's running GS/ShrinkIt and ProDOS 8.  I'm not aware of
a "System 2" version of GS/OS, or even ProDOS-16.

> You don't need this.  Use 8-bit ShrinkIt.  It requires only ProDOS,
> will run on your machine with no problem, and handles all disk images
> without problems.

Seconded.  The ShrinkIt that comes in "shrink.exe" is, in fact, the
ProDOS 8 version.

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