Re: SEA files in GSOS

[Alistair J Ross <mail@ataliross.co.uk>]

Thank you everyone for helping,

Jeff's series of BLOADs and BSAVEs did the trick.

Regards,

Alistair Ross

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:19:40 -0400, Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> On 11 Sep 2004 07:27:30 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
> 
>>Jeff Blakeney replied:
>>
>>>This is a good idea, although you missed the CREATE step,
>>
>>What CREATE step?  I've never found one necessary for a BSAVE,
>>and ProDOS allows any (small enough) file to be BLOADed if a
>>Type specifier is included.
> 
> If you are using BSAVE with the type specifier option then the file
> must already exist.  If you type:
> 
>     BSAVE GSHK.SEA, A$2000, B$0, L$4000, TS16
> 
> and GSHK.SEA doesn't exist you will get a "PATH NOT FOUND" error.
> 
> By using the CREATE GSHK.SEA, TS16 command you are creating an empty
> file with the name and type that you want.  Then the BSAVE command
> above will work without error.
> 
>>> but in this
>>>case it isn't quite so straight forward.  GSHK (aka ShrinkIt.GS) v1.1
>>>is 118,119 bytes long so you can BLOAD the entire thing into memory
>>>from Applesoft under ProDOS 8.
>>
>>(No doubt you meant "..so you can't...")
>>
>>This is, indeed, a critical "detail".  ;-)
> 
> Yes, my brain seems to have gotten ahead of my fingers again and I
> missed the apostrophe t.  :-)
> 
>>Ah, now I see--it needs to be an S16 file, not just a BIN file...  ;-)
>>I expected it to be BRUNable, but that would also limit its size.
> 
> Yes, the self-extracting version of ShrinkIt for the IIgs is a GS/OS
> program.  It is possible the 8 bit version of ShrinkIt could be
> BRUNable to self-extract it but I have never seen a self-extracting
> version of that version of ShrinkIt.  In fact, I think only GSHK has
> the ability to add self-extracting code to an archive but seeing as I
> haven't used the 8 bit ShrinkIt in years, I could be wrong.

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