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Re: Shrinkit

In article <970612.194717.14241@cougar.cc.oxy.edu>,
John de La Fontaine <delafo@oxy.edu> wrote:
>I then transfered the file to my IIGS using Xmodem. When I tried
>Shrinkit, I got an error that the header was bad / incorrect.

   First off, Xmodem may require special settings to make it transfer
in binary mode. Zmodem is far more prevalent, powerful, faster and
useful. The problem may also lie in your rather outdated copies
of Shrinkit.

>This is Shrinkit 3.0.3 and the only target
>drive it offered me was the 3.5 inch (800 K) external drive. The file
>has a size of 164K and somewhere I believe it was 200% shrank - this 
>should fit on a 800 K drive.

   A 5.25" disk is 140Kbytes per side, and Shrinkit should be able
to compress things quite well; Alpha Plot did not have enough random
stuff on it to make it uncompressible. Are there 2 disk sides inside
this 164K shrinkit file? GS-Shrinkit will not decompress 5.25" disks,
but should (at least in v1.1) handle all 800K disks. Therefore, if
GSHK rejected it, it probably is a 5.25" disk archive despite what
Shrinkit 3.0.3 thinks.

   Next, as the FAQ notes, the latest version of Shrinkit is 3.4,
which is newer than what you have. It is usually prudent to make sure
that you have the latest versions of software to avoid any bugs,
quirks, or lack of features that later revisions have. I'd recommend
snagging Shrinkit 3.4 and GS Shrinkit 1.1 and trying with them.

Nathan Mates


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