Re: Appleworks GS

[Nels Bruckner <nelsb@comcast.net>]

On Sep 7, 5:23 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "Nels Bruckner" <ne...@comcast.net> wrote in message89062d03-5273-4121-8333-0d808495f3d1@n38g2000prl.googlegroups.com">news:89062d03-5273-4121-8333-0d808495f3d1@n38g2000prl.googlegroups.com...
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> On Sep 7, 4:15 pm, Alex Lee <ale...@mac.com> wrote:
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> > On 2008-09-08 08:49:40 +1000, Drew <GoggleD...@gmail.com> said:
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> > > On Sep 7, 10:48 pm, Nels Bruckner <ne...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > >> On Sep 7, 11:19 am, macdog <bigdog...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >>>> Whats the best source?
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> > >>>> --Nels
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> > >>> Tryhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/
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> > >>> Jamie
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> > >> Wow, thanks.
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> > >> That brings up another question - the image of Appleworks GS, and
> > >> many other GS disk images that I have found, lack a file extension.
> > >> I've tried renaming the file to be a .shk, .dsk, ,po, etc, but none of
> > >> these options results in a viable disk image. How do you deal with
> > >> these 'no extension' files and end up with an Apple readable disk?
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> > >> Thanks.
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> > >> --Nels
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> > > Hi,
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> > > I find that the zip files on the whatistheapple2gs site don't open
> > > well on PCs. I tend to use 7zip to unzip the file, and then use it
> > > again to unzip the file without the extension that should get you the
> > > four 2mg files in that archive (I have just tried it). Windows inbuilt
> > > zip doesnt like the files from that site. On a Mac they all open fine.
> > > You can get 7zip fromhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
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> > > Cheers
> > > Andrew
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> > More specifically, the problem with the .zip files on the site seems to
> > be when they're downloaded with Internet Explorer 6 or 7. I will always
> > recommend that you browse the web with Firefox and not just for my site
> > either :-)
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> > - Alexhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/-Hide quoted text -
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>      Too weird.
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>      I also eventually got the Appleworks GS archive to work (w/o
> having to resort to Firefox, thankfully, since I find that browser to
> be problematic, at best).  I found that if I open the archive using
> WinRAR (though perhaps Windows built-in zip functionality would work
> as well... haven't tried) and then double-click on the extensionless
> file within (W/O extracting it first) and point the "open with" dialog
> at the WinRAR.exe the archive will open up correctly.  When I followed
> the same steps, but extracted the extensionless file first and renamed
> it with a .zip extension, it did not work.
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>      Very bizzare.
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>      Thanks for the help everyone.
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>      --Nels
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> That isn't an extensionless file, it's a folder, AKA Directory.  
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> Bill Garber from GS-Electronicshttp://www.garberstreet.com- Hide quoted text -
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     Actually, it appears to be zipped zip file, lacking an
extension.  Very odd.  Within the second zip file is indeed a
directory, which contains the .2mg files.

     --Nels

     p.s. The issue I encountered with the nested zip file not working
if it was extracted turned out to be pilot error.  I just had to
download the file (with IE), unzip the extensionless file (with
WinRAR), rename it with a .zip extension, and then unzip that file
(agian, with WinRAR) to get at the images.  Worked great.