Re: SEA files in GSOS

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On 11 Sep 2004 07:27:30 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>Jeff Blakeney replied:
>
>>This is a good idea, although you missed the CREATE step,
>
>What CREATE step?  I've never found one necessary for a BSAVE,
>and ProDOS allows any (small enough) file to be BLOADed if a
>Type specifier is included.

If you are using BSAVE with the type specifier option then the file
must already exist.  If you type:

    BSAVE GSHK.SEA, A$2000, B$0, L$4000, TS16

and GSHK.SEA doesn't exist you will get a "PATH NOT FOUND" error.

By using the CREATE GSHK.SEA, TS16 command you are creating an empty
file with the name and type that you want.  Then the BSAVE command
above will work without error.

>> but in this
>>case it isn't quite so straight forward.  GSHK (aka ShrinkIt.GS) v1.1
>>is 118,119 bytes long so you can BLOAD the entire thing into memory
>>from Applesoft under ProDOS 8.
>
>(No doubt you meant "..so you can't...")
>
>This is, indeed, a critical "detail".  ;-)

Yes, my brain seems to have gotten ahead of my fingers again and I
missed the apostrophe t.  :-)

>Ah, now I see--it needs to be an S16 file, not just a BIN file...  ;-)
>I expected it to be BRUNable, but that would also limit its size.

Yes, the self-extracting version of ShrinkIt for the IIgs is a GS/OS
program.  It is possible the 8 bit version of ShrinkIt could be
BRUNable to self-extract it but I have never seen a self-extracting
version of that version of ShrinkIt.  In fact, I think only GSHK has
the ability to add self-extracting code to an archive but seeing as I
haven't used the 8 bit ShrinkIt in years, I could be wrong.

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