Re: ShrinkIt Image

[jpldwu@hotmail.com (Dominic Wu)]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20020908025727.09028.00003035@mb-cg.aol.com>...
> 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.

It's ShrinkIt GS as far as I can tell (GSHK.SEA)

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

When I double click on it, I get the dialog box: "An application
cannot be found to open this document."

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

That's the first good news I've had after 2 days of struggle! :)

> 
> 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.

It does sound like a resource fork issue as I have read on some
FAQ/Readme.  My Apple-Fu is only limited to my first //e.  The GS is
like a childhood dream come true as I could not afford it way back
when.  I'm not quite sure what to do about these unfamiliar Resource
Forks.  All I want to do is put a fork in it and call it done.  (Boot
and run ShrinkItGS to upack these wonder Apple software).

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

I am booting up with a System 5 thanks to a System.Disk5 image
available on the Ground Archive.  (That I could drop into DiskCopy and
make an image).

> 
> -michael
> 

Thank you, Michael, for taking the time to answer such newbie
questions.  If I can only be directed to some instructions that will
get me where I need to be, I'd be foolhearty to post such silly
questions.

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