Re: weird Shrinkit bug

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3mphva$evl@onyx.southwind.net>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>
> [ROM 3 IIgs details deleted]
> 
> I was trying to use Shrinkit 3.4 to unarchive some 5.25 disks. I connected a
> 5.25 to the drive port and switched slot 6 from the superdrive card to the
> 5.25 drive port. Since the files were on an HFS volume on my hard disk and
> my 3.5s were inaccessible, I copied the files to the RAM disk residing on the
> slinky card. Then I ran Shrinkit and unarchived some files. When I quit back
> to my program selector, I discovered that the archives had vanished off the
> RAM disk.

I just tried a similar operation on my ROM 3 (to a PC Transporter in
slot 7; the PCT is also a "slinky" RAM card) and it worked fine - the
files stayed there after returning to GS/OS.

What program selector are you using?  Perhaps _it_ is wiping the
slinky RAM disk.
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David Empson
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