Re: Shrinkit GS

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

Thanks. That did the trick. Isn't there a GS/OS version
of Asimov?  I downloaded it but couldn't extract it using
the 8-bit version due to the forked file thing but now I
am getting that the archive is damaged.

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"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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> william strutts <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote in message
> news:yqkS6.18280$DG1.3676772@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com...
> > Is Shrinkit GS shareware or Freeware?  If so, does anyone
> > know of where you can get a version of it to be downloaded
> > so that it can be opened on a machine without it?  All of the
> > versions I have found are in shrinkit GS format and can't
> > be unpacked using 8-bit shrinkit.  I have tried serveral
> > versions of it but they all contained forked files which
> > can't be unpacked using the older version.
> > --
>
> I forgot how I did it, so I checked the faq:
>
> http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html#003
>
> Getting GS-ShrinkIt
>
>      If you do not already have Balloon or an earlier version of
> GS-ShrinkIt, there are
> several ways to get GS-ShrinkIt going once a file is downloaded and
> transferred to
> your IIgs. Here are the two easiest ways:
>
>
> A. The Self-Extracting (.sea) version
>
>      A IIgs .sea file is a IIgs application which self-extracts the file
> contents when executed
> from the usual Finder desktop display. Since the file gshk.sea will, most
> likely, arrive
> as a Text type file, you will need to change the file's filetype to $B3
> (S16) before it can
> be executed.
>
>      Several utilities can change ProDOS filetype. If you do not have one,
> you can download
> tchange.bin and follow the directions* in tchange_info.txt  to get it
going
> on your Apple II.
>
>      You can find GS-ShrinkIt in an .SEA file (e.g. gshk.sea) and
> tchange.bin on several
> archive sites. See Q&A 007 below.
>
>
> B. The Shrinked Disk (.sdk) version
>
>      GSUTILS.sdk is a shrinked whole-disk file which can be unshrinked to
> 800k 3.5"
> diskette using 8-bit ShrinkIt (or GS-ShrinkIt).  If booted, this diskette
> starts a bare-bones
> System 6.0.1 and launches GS-ShrinkIt.
>
>      Besides GS-ShrinkIt, also on the disk (in .shk files) are the ZLINK
> shareware
> telecom utility and ASIMOV for converting .dsk files. Coolwriter (for
> reading Text) is on
> the disk as a non-shrinked file. All of these can be copied to hard disk
or
> to other diskettes.
>
>      GSUTILS.sdk is available in Ground's useful.stuff/ folder. 8-bit
> ShrinkIt in a
> self-extracting version can be found in the same folder.  (See Q&A 007
> below.)
>
>
>
>