Re: ShrinkIt for Mac?

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling)]

In article <kindall-1610961254430001@news.sojourn.com>, kindall@manual.com
(Jerry Kindall) wrote:

>In article <541s4d$6qv@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>
>>   There may also be a version of nulib compiled up for the Macintosh,
>>a publically available program for dealing with Shrinkit (NuFX) files.
>>However, as nulib was designed to take parameters off the command line,
>>I'm not sure how Mac compilers deal with this lack of basic computer
>>functionality.
>
>Usually with prompts or by putting up a dialog.  It's not that much work
>to add that.

It's no work at all, since the major programming environments provide
this functionality with one function call:

   argc = ccommand(&argv); /* get command line */

That's it.

Anyway, since there were a few complaints about how the Mac handles or
not handles Apple II files, I put together a drag & drop application
and called it ProTYPE.
ProTYPE converts files you drag & drop on it to make them better useable
with Apple II computers. It will strip resource forks from text files,
type the files correctly and convert Binscii files. It will also preserve 
file/aux types of all kinds of file inside a Binscii wrapper. Try this
with sciibin on a PC, Nathan ;)
It is scriptable (understands AppleEvents) and can be used as a helper 
application for Internet programs. So you can tell Netscape or Anarchie
to postprocess all .bsq files with ProTYPE, for example.

I will send it to the usual archives in a few minutes.

Dirk

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