Re: Shrinkit.Exe

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>     The usual snag with using an .sea file you download and transfer to your
IIgs
>is that it arrives as a type TXT file. So, the user will need to change the
>filetype to $B3 (S16) in order to execute the file and obtain GS-ShrinkIt.

Yes, and if it has passed through a Mac instead of a PC, that text file
is going to have a resource fork in it.  Since changing the file type without
a program to do it usually means going into Basic.System, a ProDOS 8
program, trying to even access the file is going to result in an error.

Thus, why not have a separate archive of GS-Shrinkit just for Mac users
that is stored in DiskCopy format (BinHexed to preserve Mac types).
This way, when a Mac user downloads the archive, he or she runs it
through DiskCopy and the Mac spits out a ProDOS disk with GS-Shrinkit
on it, ready to use.

PC users could go through the traditional way of transferring the .sea
file to the IIGS and changing the file type from Basic.System.  It is just
important to have a separate archive for Mac users' needs since once
a Mac touches the file, Basic.System can't and that means the file
will be stuck as a text type so Finder won't launch it.