Re: Shrinkit Question

["Dale Burgess" <dburgess@pcpros.net>]

Where can I get a copy of Shrinkit GS?

Supertimer wrote in message
<1998050806460400.CAA13005@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
>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...