Re: ShrinkIt on a DiskCopy Image Idea (it is on AOL).

["Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>]

Hello.  This sounds like a good idea to me.  If it is not too much trouble
for those that know how to do it, then please do so for the good of the
Apple II community. I am planning on trying to download some Apple II
programs off the Internet to my PC, then trying to get them on a real floppy
disk that my ][+, IIe, IIc+, or IIgs can really use.  I have information on
building a null modem cable, plus I have a Mac IIcx (don't know how to use
it, but I have it), so hopefully I can make it happen.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton
www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html


Supertimer wrote in message
<19981222235642.21599.00000466@ng-fp1.aol.com>...
>This is a message for Randy Shackelford, Dr. Tom, and
>Rubywand (the current official FAQ Keeper).
>
>Please respond via csa2, please don't respond or send to
>my email.  Thanks!
>
>Randy, Dr. Tom, what do you two think of putting Shrinkit,
>GS ShrinkIt, and UnforkIt on a DiskCopy image and
>uploading it to the ground ftp server?  Imagine how much
>headache this will solve.  A IIGS or IIe user with a Mac
>just needs to download this disk on a Mac and use
>DiskCopy to make a 3.5" disk containing all the essential
>programs WHICH CAN THEN IMMEDIATELY BE USED
>ON A IIGS OR IIE.
>
>As you two know, this will once and forever end the
>Nathanian roundabout fuss with bootstrapping binscii
>from Basic.System.
>
>Randy, I know you prefer ProTYPE, but don't you think
>one more option is a good thing?
>
>Dr. Tom, did you copy this file from AOL to ground
>already? (Please respond via csa2, not email, thanks.)
>
>If not, would either of you want to do it or, if not, I
>can do it.  It is in the "New Files and Free Uploading"
>area on the Apple II Forum.
>
>Here is the description (Randy, feel free to bobbitize
>it if you want in your reply but I think it is relevant so
>people understand what I'm proposing).
>
>>Subject:  ShrinkIt: DiskCopy Image (new)
>>Author:  Various (Andy Nicholas and others)
>>Uploaded By:  AFL GaryJ
>>Date:  10/12/96
>>
>>File:  ShrinkIt.image (838843 bytes)
>>Estimated Download Time (28800 baud):  < 7 minutes
>>Download Count:  69
>>
>>Equipment:  Macintosh and Apple IIGS, Apple IIe or Apple IIc
>>with a 3.5 inch drive
>>
>>Needs:  Apple's DiskCopy 4.2 to extract the disk image
>>
>>NOTE:  DiskCopy 4.2 for the Macintosh is needed to extract this file.
>>DiskCopy may be downloaded in Apple Computer's software library.
>>
>>NEW ON THIS UPLOAD:  UnForkIt v0.1,  7/4/94 by Ivan Drucker,
>>has been added to the disk so that the resource forks added by the
>>Macintosh System Software can be removed from the Apple II
>>archives after they have been transferred to an Apple II machine.
>>Running this program on an Apple II archive will eliminate the
>>"Can't Open Forked File" message that one will get if they are
>>using the ProDOS 8 version of ShrinkIt.
>>
>>Previous download count:  142
>>
>>This upload is a DiskCopy disk image of an 800k bootable
>>ProDOS diskette containing the following files:
>>
>>PRODOS - the operating system
>>SHRINKIT.SYSTEM - this file launches ShrinkIt for ProDOS 8
>>SHRINKIT - version 3.4 of ShrinkIt for ProDOS 8
>>BASIC.SYSTEM - the Applesoft BASIC interpreter for ProDOS
>>GSHK - GS-ShrinkIt 1.1 (for the Apple IIGS)
>>UNFORKIT0.1 - a program to remove resource forks
>>(in Applesoft BASIC) by Ivan Drucker
>>TYPECHANGER - a file type changing program (in Applesoft
>>BASIC) by Jim Mensch
>>
>>System requirements:
>>
>>GSHK - Apple IIGS with 768k total memory FREE
>>SHRINKIT - Apple IIe enhanced, IIc, IIc+, or IIGS
>
>And to the FAQ Keeper, Rubywand (congratulations for
>becomming the official FAQ Keeper, read the email from
>news.answers; hey folks, Nathan is no longer the official
>FAQ keeper as far as usenet is concerned), could you add
>the location of this DiskCopy image to the FAQ (once it
>is uploaded to ground) so that Macintosh plus Apple II
>owners can better get stated using their Apple IIs?
>
>Thank you to all three of you in advance.