Re: Help with Sys 5 for IIGS

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

"David Kachel" <dkphoto@cyber-wire.com> wrote:

>That's very kind of you and if I cannot find it elsewhere I will certainly
>take advantage of your offer, but surely there must be SOMEWHERE on the
>internet where these files can be downloaded in a format that is not nearly
>impossible to unpack.

Yes, on America Online's Apple II Forum.  There is a disk containing
ShrinkIt!, ShrinkIt! GS, GSCII+, and binscii that's stored under the
"Mac to Apple II" button on the home page of the forum.  It is a Mac
DiskCopy disk image.

The catch: this forum can only be accessed via AOL.

The problem.  PC users can't download it without messing up the
Mac info!  Yes, I have tried to download it and email it to a Mac
user.  The Mac user said he could not unpack it.  I used the IIGS
program "Clone," to extract the DiskCopy image and it tested fine,
but it seems once downloaded to a PC, Macs won't touch it.

What is required is for a *MAC* user to download it through the
Mac version of AOL and then BinHex encode it before uploading
it to an Apple II FTP site.  This will once and for all solve the
chicken and the egg problem.

If only a Mac using AOL user would be willing to do the grunt
work.

The AOL Apple II Forum can be reached with this keyword:

aol://4344:1264.a2main.10029531.514525857

Paste it into the keyword dialog box (click on the Keyword
button next to the URL bar in AOL 4 or under the GoTo menu
in AOL 3 and before) and then click to go.

A couple of months ago, Charles Turley tried to upload a similar
image, but it was not BinHex encoded so Mac users can't
download it properly.  If a Mac AOL user would do the transfer,
please BinHex encode it first.