Re: ShrinkIt Image

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Dominic Wu wrote:

>I have downloaded a .sea copy of ShirnkIt on my Mac LC and copied the
>file onto a 3.5" DS/DD ProDOS disk.  I could not get ShrinkIt to
>install.  And with only 1 3.5" drive and 1 5.25" drive right now, I'm
>not sure if ShrinkIt will even fit on a 5.25" blank.  With everything
>seemingly available on the .SHK format, I'm pretty much stuck right
>now w/my newly acquired //gs.  Is it possible to ask someone who has
>access to ShrinkIt to upload/email a DiskCopy image of a bootable 3.5"
>with ShrinkIt on it already?  It would be most appreciated.

You don't specify whether this is the ProDOS version of ShrinkIt or
the GS/OS version, ShrinkIt GS.

You also don't say how it fails to "install".

The ProDOS version simply expands into an executable binary,
which will surely fit with the .sea file and ProDOS on the 3.5"
drive.

Perhaps the Mac has attached a resource fork, making the
.sea file unexecutable under ProDOS.  This can be fixed by
using UNFORKIT, an Applesoft program (possible chicken
and egg problem), or a program to remove forks on the Mac.
I know there is such a program (though I don't use it) that
someone here can name.

If you are using System 6.0.1, then you will find the lack of a
larger mass storage device very limiting.

-michael

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