Re: GSHK 1.1 Problems

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

In article <4otukl$nk1@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
John Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>Tom Zuchowski (cd003508@interramp.com) wrote:
>: FYI the 8-bit ShrinkIt 3.4 has a more robust SDK unpacker than GSHK does. 
>: GSHK normally cannot unpack 5.25 SDK archives that were made with ShrinkIt 
>: 3.4, but ShrinkIt 3.4 can unpack =any= GSHK 3.5 or 5.25 SDk archive, even 
>: GSOS ones.

>GSHK *can* unpack 5.25 sdk archives, just not to a 5.25 disk.  Unpack it
>to a 3.5 disk, and the files will be entirely intact (and you won't have
>to bounce down to P8 and back).
>	This technique, of course, works only with ProDOS disks.

   Shameless plug: my Swatterdisk program allows you to create a 140K
ramdisk (or four) whenever you've got 140K free memory under GS/OS.
With that, you can unpack 5.25" disk archives very trivially, no
hunting for other disks or anything else. You can create those
ramdisks, unpack stuff to them, copy everything off, and dump the
ramdisks in the trash to release the memory.

   Shareware, available from ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu, pub/nathan

Nathan Mates
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