Re: Mac d/l for Apple2 GS forked files need help

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depuck@ulster.net (Timothy T) wrote:

>HI i am d/l files to my Mac for my sons Apple2 GS .. So far i have D/L the
>files off the web on to a 800k ProDOS formated disk.. I have shrinkit to
>open the files but at some point Shrinkit tells me it can't open the files
>because they are forked... now is there a program that will remove the
>forkes   from the files so i can open the apple2 gs files...if so what is
>the name of it and how do i use it. I hope someone can help... oh  yea 
>the apple2 gs is running system 5.something....with a little over a meg of
>ram  (2) 3.5 flopys& (1) 5.25 flopy

You DON'T want to remove the forks in the archive!!!

Tim, you use a Macintosh right?  Perhaps you know that Macintosh
uses extended files...files that are broken into two parts, a data fork
and a resource fork.  Non-GS Apple II (8-bit models) have NO OS
capable of using extended (otherwise known as "forked") files but
the Apple IIGS OS, GS/OS, shares with Mac OS the use of forked
files.  Just as 8-bit A2 OS can't use forked files from Mac OS, 8-bit
A2 OS can't use forked files from GS/OS...YOU CANNOT USE
8-BIT SHRINKIT TO EXTRACT EXTENDED FILES SUCH AS GS
PROGRAMS!!!

The proper way to extract GS programs is to use GS Shrinkit...
which, incidentally, is able to extract .shk archives directly from a
Mac without the need to mess around with Protype...GS/OS and
GS Shrinkit does not care if Netscape Mac attaches an rComment
resource to the archive!  Remember, GS/OS and Mac OS share
extended files in common...GS Shrinkit does not care what MacOS
does to file archives and 8-bit Shrinkit can't extract forked files
WITHIN an archive just like it can't read an archive at all if MacOS
has extended ("forked") it...

Where can you get a copy of Shrinkit GS?

Download all the files from the following place and run them through binscii...
ftp://liquefy.isca.uiowa.edu/8/ground/apple2/apple16/Comm/Utils/Shrinkitgs.v11/