Re: Third site for obtaining ProTYPE now in use!

[shack@onyx-206.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
: bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin) wrote:
: in response to my reply:
: >> B.J., remember that most GS programs have resource forks.  Even
: >> if you use ProTYPE and get those archives into a form that the
: >> 8-bit unshrink and unbinscii programs can recognize, you have a
: >> second problem of unpacking the files once the archive is open.
: >> 8-bit ProDOS Shrink-It! will not unpack files that themselves
: >> contain a resource fork (that is, GS programs with resource forks
: >> that have been archived by GSHK).  At some point, you will need
: >> GSHK.
: >
: >The resource fork issue is being taken care of quite nicely with the use of
: >ProTYPE on the Mac end.  I have yet to run into a file that will not unpack
: >once the file is open, and I've put all these archives under the ProTYPE
: >treatment.

: Go to the ground FTP site, look in the apple16/games directory and
: download lemmings.shk or some other GS game.  Try unpacking it with
: ProTYPE and 8-bit Shrink-It.  Won't work.

: You need GSHK because the original program has a resource fork and
: needs it.

: Randy S., since you started this, please explain it.

Nothing to explain. Anyone who has been paying attention for the last five
years and has a modicum of reasoning ability knows that 8 bit Shrinkit can't
uncompress archives with extended files. More specifically, it can unarchive
the standard files but not the extended files. That is independent of the
way you download 'em. And I'd say that only some, not most, native apps
have extended files. Looks like bjbear hasn't encountered any yet. I'll give
her credit for knowing that having extended archive files and having archives
containing extended files are different things.

Sure seems like you have a bad attitude about curing the complications from
Mac downloading while the files are still on the Mac. The only thing I 
"started" was trying to get accurate, useful information out.
--
Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net