Re: Decompressing gz files on the GS

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"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Lockar writes ...
> >
> >
> >    Rubywand,
> >
> >          Does this require a spefic version of ProDOS 8?  I currently
> > have 2.03 and when I go to run the program it crashes.  Does it require
> > 2.04 (I think that was the last ProDOS release)?
> >
>  ...
>
>      GzPk (v2) seems to work okay on our ROM-01 GS under ProDOS 2.0.3.
> However, it may bomb if you start it (by double-clicking on the file
name).
>
>      What's supposed to happen is that the program scans the root
directories
> of all on-line volumes and lists .gz files it finds. Whether or not if
finds
> any, once it's finished scanning you should be able to browse to the
volume
> and the folder which has the .gz file you want to convert.
>
>      Sometimes all of this works. Sometimes not-- i.e. the scan never
happens
> and all you get is a few garbage characters on the screen and no browser.
>
>      The only way I've gotten the program to work reliably is to have the
.gz
> file I want to convert in the same folder as the GzPk program. (Trying
GzPk
> v1 is another option. It avoids fancy stuff and just asks you to enter the
> pathname of the .gz file.)
>
>
>      So, try moving the .gz file you want to convert into the same folder
as
> GzPk (v2). When you start GzPk it should list the file. When you highlight
> the file name and press RETURN, GzPk should work for a few seconds and
then
> stop. When you exit, you should find that a .zip file has been created in
the
> folder.
>
>      Whether GzPk always succeeds in producing a good .zip file is another
> question. For sure, there have been a few cases when GzPk plus PMPUnZip
> failed to produce the expected .dsk (or .shk, or whatever file). Yet, on
the
> PC, WinZip had no trouble extracting the .dsk from the same .gz file and
the
> .dsk booted fine on AppleWin.
>
>
>
> Rubywand