Re: Newbie alert: ShrinkIt IIe questions =)

[Michael Spangler <spangler@gorge.net>]

In article <3901EDDA.F0AE17E@swbell.net>, Rubywand
<rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

> WebDreamer writes ...
> > 
> > I'm fairly new to the world wide Apple scene, having used my IIe for
> > very little other than the few games and Word Processing programs it
> > came with. I have managed to get ADT running fairly smooth, and I've
> > back up all my old disks to PC, but I am having problems with .shk
> > files. How do I transfer them from my PC to my IIe? Is there a special
> > program that I missed somewhere?
>  ....
> 
>      You mean like "Shrinkit File Transfer" or something similar? No; there is
> not any special way to transfer ShrinkIt files.

> 
> Ground
> ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/
> 
> Tarnover
> ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/Tarnover/FAQs.and.Info/A2.Csa2.FAQs/
> 

I've downloaded a couple of .SDK and SHK and a BXY file from those
sites, and so far ever one of them has shown up as a "forked" file when
I try to Unshrink it on the CATAGIG emulator. Since these were all
8-bit files intended to run on my IIe, I don't see why they would have
resource forks attached. 

Is this an artifact of my downloads (Fetch to Mac), a CATAGIG error or
is there something else going on? 

If nothing else suggests itself, I'm going to modem them to the IIe and
try unshrinking them from there. First, I need more 5.25 disks, the
lack of which stopped me cold last weekend. 

Mike