Re: ground site & LemminGS

[jbcole@ix.netcom.com (JB)]

In article <5bb5hc$533$1@europa.frii.com>, shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy
Shackelford) wrote:

>In article <jbcole-ya02408000R1101971820250001@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
>JB <jbcole@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>In article <5b9g7c$82p$1@europa.frii.com>, shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy
>>Shackelford) wrote:
>>
>>> In article <jbcole-ya02408000R1101971440520001@nntp.netcruiser>,
>>> JB Cole <jbcole@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>> >How do I make the LemminGS demo file on ground somethng my IIgs will
>>recognize?
>>> 
>>> For some dorky reason, it's a 3.5 disk archive. So I reformatted my slinky
>>> to 800K, extracted it, then copied the files to another volume.
>>
>>
>>Huh?
>
>Huh what? I have a 1 mb slinky memory card in my IIgs. The A2.RAMCARD device
>driver supports formatting at 1 mb or at 800K. When I want to uncompress a
>3.5 disk archive, all I do is reformat the slinky from 1 mb to 800K, then
>uncompress it. No bothering with floppy disks. Then I copied the files to
>another volume, a file server volume in this case.
>-- 

The "Huh what?" was me wondering what a slinky was.  Also, I didn't realize
before that you had to already start GSHK and then open the archive.  I was
trying to just double click the archive like I do other .SHK files.