Re: GS-Shrinkit Disk Image

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>]

"Jonathan Herr" <dracosilver@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
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: "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net> wrote in message
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: > "Jonathan Herr" <dracosilver@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
: > news:BLxVc.1732$Gk5.993@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
: > : I would like it if anyone could image their copy of
GS-Shrinkit
: > into a disk
: > : image that can be written easily to an 800k disk using
DiskDup+
: > or something
: > : similar?
: >
: > It comes in a SHK (8-bit ShrinkIt) file and it is a
: > Self-Extracting file inside. You extract it and run it
: > on the GS and it's done. I believe it requires GS/OS
: > to run.
: >
:
: The ones i think i've come across are in .dsk format or .sea
format, but i
: can't figure out how to extract them... the sea doesn't self
extract... and
: what the heck to i do with the .dsk file?  i know it's
something i can write
: to a disk, but how.... i don't think DiskDup+ can handle .dsk
files...

The SEA file extracts on the IIgs by itself. Just run it.
The DSK writes to a 5.25 or 140K disk on the Apple II by using
ADT.
DiskDup+ only does 800K images such as IMG files on the Mac.

: And if i try copying the file to a ProDos formatted disk (a
file
: with the .shk extension i think) the computer locks up on me...

If you are downloading the SHK files to a Mac then writing them
to
a ProDOS formatted floppy, the filetypes are probably getting
ruined
by the forking process. You need to write only the data fork of
the
file to the floppy. I'm a little vague on how this is done, as it
has been 2 years since I've had to deal with this issue. Now I
only
have to download to PC, write files to MS-DOS disk, and read them
on the GS using Superdrive and Peter Watson's Mug!.

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