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Re: HCGS?

Bryan K. Ogawa (bogawa@cloudburst.seas.ucla.edu) wrote:
: Jason Jeffries (JJeffries@psu.edu) wrote:
: > Where might I be able to find Hypercard GS? I couldn't find it in
: > bric-a-brac.apple.com or on caltech or grind...

: try ftp.support.apple.com , in the directory

: "/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/Apple II/HyperCard IIGS"

: Note the spaces.  There are non-space aliases in each directory, so as 
: long as you take it one at a time, you'll get there OK, without having to 
: quote the spaces.

: I believe this contains the infamous "extra bytes" file, which has a 
: header (MacBinary?) before the actual archive.  You'll have to strip the 
: header before GSHK will recognize the files.  I think I ended up writing 
: some C code to do it--does anyone have any such code handy?

Yep!  I wrote a short program to do exactly this a while ago for some
other people.  If anybody wants it, I can send it to you or post
it to the binaries.

Mark Marr-Lyon
o9938156@unicorn.it.wsu.edu