Re: Shrink Files

[<thomas>]

It took me FOREVER to finally setup my systems to properly do this - here's
what I have (and I got it working mainly due to some kind souls on this
newsgroup!!)

my setup:
pc (win2000 pro - but that should not matter too much)
mac quadra 700 (running I think 7.6.1 - 8.1 didn't leave me with too much
free memory) - it's perfect for me - small footprint, built-in ethernet and
it looks really nice - very important!
IIgs (with an applied ingenuity HD - vulcan wanta be)

pc and mac are connected via t10 ethernet
mac and IIgs are connected via appletalk

on windows: netscape fasttrack web server (free) - iplanet.com
on mac: netscape 2.x installed (the later ones use too much ram on my quadra
and take too long to start - due to java which I don't need on the mac side)
and a program called protype
between the mac and iigs I have my mac drives shared to the iigs via
aliases.

1) I download files from web onto the pc (ftp or regular IE downloads)
2) copy the downloaded files onto a directory setup on the web server - on
my desktop I just drag and drop them there
3) start netscape on the mac - I have the homepage setup to the published
directory on the windows web server
4) from the mac netscape just drag and drop the files onto the mac drive and
drop the files onto protype - it removes resource forks from the files and
does some nice handling of (I think they're called) bsq or bsx (I forget)
files - NOTE I could NOT get it working without doing this.
5) on the IIgs I open the shared mac drives and drag and drop the files onto
the IIgs - most often I don't even bother to copy the files, I just
gs-unshrink them directly from the mac over appletalk - the speed problem is
not getting the file from appletalk vs. the gs drives writing back the disk.

I've been using this for a couple of months now recreating all kinds of lost
IIgs treasures - works great for IIe disk restores as well - just make sure
you have initialized the IIe disk first - took me a while to figure that one
out.

total cost: webserver was free (doesn't win2k already come with IIS -
anyhow), about $5 for an ethernet to AAUI (or something like that) adapter
for my quadra, $5 for a bunch of phonenet type appletalk connectors, and I
think I paid about $10 for the quadra 700 with max ram, 230meg internal HD.

thomas

"John Zielke" <jzielke@nospam.qquest.com> wrote in message
news:3b8f93e8$0$26197@wodc7nh0.news.uu.net...
> I am having no luck converting SHK files back to 3.5 diskettes.  I
download
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