Re: HCGS at ftp.support.apple.com

[toh@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode, progreen@ncw.net (Chuck Orem) said:

>Thank You Apple Com for wasting my fucking time.
>And yes, I did use binary format to transfer the files.
>Now, is there a site where the HCGS disks are available, in a format that 
>GSHK 1.1 will recognize? Thank You.

A) Remain calm. It's only software.
B) Strip off the Mac-o-centric (tm) header, which appears to be 512 luscious,
   informative bytes long. If you have the files on a Unix box, try:

dd if="Annoying Long Filename (From Apple (Inc))" of=hc1.bxy skip=1 bs=512

...or countless other solutions (I used dd yesterday for about the first time
in five years, so this one occurs to me offhand). If you don't have a Unix
account, find your own solution (something like ProDOS List would do in a
pinch).

C) Extract the shrunk file from the binary II file, then unshrink it to disk.
D) Lather, rinse, repeat five times.
E) Try to be less lame in your next post.

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