Re: Shrinkit Question

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Bob and Linda Barrett <blbarret@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Can anyone help with this?  I was using Shrinkit to extract a .shk
>archive, (Solitaire for GS) and I noticed that some of the files to be
>extracted in the archive are "forked" files.  When I attempt to extract
>them with Shrinkit,  the program says it cannot extract forked files. 
>How then can they be extracted?
>I tried to run the program without the files but it crashed (naturally)
>since I believe the "forked" files are the data files the program needs.
>Please help!

Bob, 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...