Re: GSHK 1.1 Problems

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4p7pk2$7c8@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
John Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>:    Since you were apparently waiting for a reply, apple2.caltech.edu.
>: Version 1.1. All the sites should be carrying identical versions, so
>: the location doesn't matter so much.

>	Just a thought, but how are you unpacking GSHK?  I hope you're
>launching the archive as a S16 file, and not trying to unpack it
>under ProDOS 8...  GSHK has a resource fork, which could complicate
>if it's not there.

   In case you've ever downloaded GSHK 1.1, you'll note that the BSQ
file unpacks to a GS/OS .SEA file, i.e. self-extracting archive. That
.SEA has no forks, and needs to be run to extract out GSHK 1.1,
including the forks.

   Of course, you cannot use GSCII+ or SSCII to unpack the GSHK 1.1
BSQ file. Those two binscii unpackers add a few extra zero bytes to
the end of file, which doesn't hurt normal files, but GS/OS thinks
it's got a corrupted application and won't run it. Using the ProDOS-8
BINSCII.SYSTEM program is fine, or you can determine the correct file
length and manually set the file length, truncating the garbage at the
end. BINSCII.SYSTEM has no problem with turning the BSQ file into the
.SEA file; you'll just have to quit back to GS/OS to launch it.

Nathan Mates
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