Re: AudioZap 2.0 Freeware released

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>:Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
>:
>:Since then, I set no helpers for GS programs...instead, I just meta-
>:click on them to download when using Netscape, forgoing helper
>:apps.  The resulting file always works fine when I take it to the GS
>:and unshrink using GS Shrinkit.  This goes for files downloaded on
>:a Mac as well as those downloaded on a PC.  For the Mac, I just
>:save it to an HFS disk, take it to the GS, and unshrink.  It does not
>:seem to need the resource stripping and typing you mentioned....
>:GS Shrinkit ignores rComment resources and any other resource..
>
>Two problems: first, that'll only work with a IIgs running GS Shrinkit.
>Shrinkit under ProDOS 8 won't open an archive with a fork attached, and
>also won't access HFS.

Those helper apps are, of course, very helpful for the IIe or IIc owner,
but we are talking about AudioZap 2.0 which requires GS/OS to
run and needs to be extracted with GS Shrinkit...

>Second, for Shrinkit to recognize 'em, the archives 
>either need the types set properly or the filenames have to end in .shk, 
>.sdk, etc. I'm used to Apple operating systems which don't rely on extensions
>to know what types files are, so I like to have the types set properly and 
>be able to name the files whatever I want.

Not really...GS Shrinkit recognizes archives using the first few bytes
of the file archive.  All you have to do is click on "show all files" and
select your archive to unshk from...