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Re: MacShrinkit

> > There are some problems with ZIP because it doesn't support all the
ProDOS
> > file information like file types or forks. These things would need to be
> > added in some way.
>
> There are several Mac versions of ZIP, so I don't think that can be true.
> Mac files have forks and file types as well.
> -Paul

I don't know for sure, maybe they have an accepted standard way of
representing these structures in the ZIP file (it could be something like
MacBinarying the files before they're stored). If so then we should use the
same ones for the IIgs version in the interests of interoperability.

Simon.