Re: Trouble w/HCGS download #2

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

In article <2u784v$ck0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Kent Squires  <kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> In <1994Jun21.112412.5289@knight.vf.ge.com> fretz@sde701.vf.ge.com.
> (Fretz James) writes: 
> 
> >I asked a question about how to unshrink the HyperCard GS files last
> >week but did not receive an answer which was understandable.  When I
> >downloaded these files they were 820k long in compressed format .sdk, I
> >tried to unshrink them to a disk using GSHK and got an error which said
> >roughly not enough space.  Any suggestions as to how this can be
> >accomplished.   
> 
> Anyway, sounds like somebody screwed up.  IIgs 3.5" disks are only 800k, and
> with an 820k _compressed_ archive, it doesn't take a genius to figure out
> it's not going to fit.  What to do? Try to find a different site to get
> it from.

820k files sounds very suspiciously like files created with the
Macintosh DiskCopy program (an image of the disk, with header
information).  They aren't compressed at all.

If so, whoever uploaded them wasn't thinking too clearly.  I know of
three methods to recreate the disk:

1. Use the full DiskCopy program on the Macintosh.

2. There is A freeware DiskCopy extractor which runs on the IIgs.

3. The "Replicator" program from EGO Systems (publishers of GS+
Magazine) can extract DiskCopy images.


I may be wrong about this - I haven't seen the files in question.
-- 
David Empson
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