Re: Sick And Tired of SHK

[processoroverclocked@33mhz.cjb.net (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <39C9B47D.C659F510@wanadoo.nl>, "ruud.dingemans"
<ruud.dingemans@wanadoo.nl> wrote:

> Rubywand wrote:
> 
> >      Anyway, so long as a file has not been corrupted there should be no
> > problem with unshrinking whole-disk 5.25" and 3.5" (800k) ShrinkIt archives
> > using 8-bit ShrinkIt on a IIgs. As mentioned earlier, one source of
corruption
> > is ProDOS handling by a Mac. (The file itself may not be messed up; but, its
> 
> >      Another source of corruption is downloading an .shk, .sdk, .dsk,
etc. file
> > in Text mode. This often happens when files are not recognized as
binary type
> 
> (Sigh) Yes, I know all this. I've used about 30 different types of
> computer - am not a beginner. Problem is, none
> of the solutions mentioned everywhere seem to actually WORK! The Mac
> keeps messin' with mah files. But how do you get it
> to keep its mitts OFF these ProDOS shk's, so that you can actually
> unpack 'em? Why doesn't Protype do its work and turn 'em into actually
> usable files? (Changing the file type doesn't seem to do it..)

I don't like ProTYPE. When I want to change a ProDOS file's type, I use MY
program. It has more control over what to change it to.

Anyway...

Do you have Microsoft Word or Tex-Edit or something? You could try opening
the file with it and resaving it under a different name as plain text.

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