Re: Having Problems acessing IIgs disk that are on CD.

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, January 20, 2013 12:23:36 AM UTC-6, Geo3 wrote:
> The original CD was made back in around 1995. This CD was recopied in 2002. Clinking on the Mac and getting info about it says, Mac OS Extended. Is being on a Mac OS Extended CD a problem?
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Yes it is a problem. The GS can only read Mac HFS formatted CD's not Mac OS Extended.

>  From what I was told the 3.5 disks were compressed with Shrink-itGS put into a folder and that folder was compressed with Stuffit Deluxe. Then put on to a CD. Now trying to uncompress them back to real disk is not working. Now I remember doing it in the past with older Mac operating systems. The folders for the disks must have been done with Stuffit Deluxe 3.5 to 4.0 I would think.
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>  I have used Stuffit and others to unstuff them. But what is in the folder is a disk copy 4.2 disk images that is 824kb in size. This is from the, get info on the mac. Now with a G4 mac with 10.5 OS on it. These disk images when transferred to the IIgs are an unknown file type. Even if I add an SHK to the end of the name.
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> Now I tried coming up on a CD with 9.2 on the G4 and tried to unstuff them again and still got the same results.
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> When I click on one of these 4.2 disk image (on the Mac) I get no mountable file systems.
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> Any ideas on how to unstuff them with out going back to an old operating system, older web browsers and D/L and old stuffit or Expander to try this all over again. Always thought this was backward compatible, that is until you try it and it does not work.
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> Thanks in advanced for any help.

If you're running a Mac I'd suggest copying the files you want to unshrink from the CD to your hard drive, then use something like Apple Commander or ADFS to copy the files into a Hard Drive image for Sweet 16, boot Sweet 16 and use Shrink-it GS to open the files.

It works for me.