Re: Third site for obtaining ProTYPE now in use!

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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 that have been archived by GSHK).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.
>
>--bj
>Apple //--///--Macintosh user/supporter/collector


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.

-Scott G.