Re: IIgs / Newbie question(s)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Mike (tarage@NOSPAM.bellsouth.net) wrote:

>GS/OS is totally different from PRODOS in that a file has two forks, 
>like the Mac OS -- a data fork and a resource fork. Because of that, I 
>don't think any 8-bit Shrinkit programs will expand GS/OS files (at 
>least I haven't found one that will). 

An important exception is a .SDK file--a ShrinkIt archive of a disk
image.  Since such archives are file system-unaware, .SDK's can
be properly packed and unpacked (to the appropriate-sized volume)
on either ProDOS 8 or GS/OS.

Of course, if the resulting disk is GS/OS-specific, then it will not
be very useful without a GS/OS machine.

-michael

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