Re: HyperCard IIGS?

[platkus@falcon.ic.net (Shawn Platkus)]

Lim Thye Chean (ltchean@iss.nus.sg) wrote:
> First, thanks to everybody who points me to ftp.support.apple.com to get
> the HCIIGS bxy files.

> But, now please HELP!!! I cannot get any of the files to work! This is my
> story:

> I am not able to upload/download software to/from my host machine and IIGS.
> So I have to go a long way:

> 1. I ftp all 6 bxy files from the Apple sites. I even switch on the bin mode.
> 2. I copy all the files from my host machine (Sun 10) to 2 1.44MB PC formatted
>    disk. (This includes some other Apple II related downloaded files)
> 3. Go to a Mac, format 6 disks in 800K ProDOS and copy all the files in the
>    1.44MB PC formatted disk to them.
> 4. Back to GS, copy all the files into harddisk - and ShrinkIt cannot 
>    recognize any of the 6 bxy HCIIGS files! But other downloaded files work!
> 5. Desparate, I try to read what it in the bxy files. Using raw data mode
>    in ShadowWrite, the files are forked! The resource are empty, however.
> 6. Copy out the data fork also cannot work.

> Please help! The whole process take more than an hour and I cannot get anything
> to work, it is very irritating. Thanks for any help!

> --
>           Lim Thye Chean: Lim is my surname. My name is Thye Chean.


Hey Thye Chean,

I don't think your process is at fault.  I've ftp'd them to my unix
account and downloaded them directly onto my GS, and I get the same
end result that you do.  I think that the files are still messed up
on the ftp site.  

But, one of your steps involve a Mac.  So, why don't you just download
the Mac archived format and decode to 800k disks on the mac?


-Shawn
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