Re: Having trouble downloading ShrinkIt archives

[fadden@spies.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <8vd91l$ua0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,  <sacredring@my-deja.com> wrote:
>Thanks Andy. And, thank you for providing the Apple ][ community with
>ShrinkIt and Nulib.
>
>It turns out that nulib and nulib2 report no errors on the downloaded
>ShrinkIt disk image after all. After uncompressing ShrinkIt for ProDOS
>8, the file size is 143360 bytes, identical to a full 5.25" disk image.
>I tried plugging this into the emulator's floppy driver but for some
>reason it's not working. The emulator I'm using (KEGS) works fine for
>most other disk images. I'll have to investigate this a bit further.

Could be a DOS vs ProDOS order issue.  I believe Kegs assumes 140K disk
images are in DOS order, but SHK archives are always ProDOS order.  Odd
that other images would work though.  (My Kegs is also a little out of
date, so I don't know if my remarks still hold.)

Use "imgconv", part of NuLib2, to convert the SHK archive to a 2MG
archive, and try that with Kegs.  The 2MG format includes the ordering
information in the file header, so there's no ambiguity.

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