Re: SYS6.0.1 disks needed!!!!help please

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <4h6dj4$hfu@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
 <niteeyes@bessie.dorm.umd.edu> wrote:
>In article <4gqhgl$qdp@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
>John Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>>In article <4giq31$5ch@news.ysu.edu> be404@yfn.ysu.edu (Adalbert Goertz) writes:
>>>
>>>Although system 6.0.1 is free, you need a license to distribute it.  Your
>>>
>>>ftp.apple.com
>>
>>A better place to get the files is at ftptoo.support.apple.com.  
>>Every time I've logged on, my connection has *never* been refused.
>>
>>--Tilghman Lesher (lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu)
>>
>
>But it appears you must have a Mac handy to decompress the files when you 
>get the archives off of ftptoo.support.apple.com (ARGH!!).  I was tearing 
>my hair out over this until I actually read the file into a text editor 
>and saw that it was something other than a Shrink-It archive.  WHy must 
>Apple do this to us? *sob*

They don't WANT to support any Apple II.  They just have a tiny bit of a 
feeling of obligation, so that's what they do.

Check the Apple II archives on internet.  They may be there in ShrinkIt 
compressed form.  The latest ShrinkIt (released about 1992)  for the GS will 
uncompress some StuffIt archives.

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