Re: ShrinkIt Image

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

Dominic Wu replied:

>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! :)

I would recommend that you get the ProDOS version, since
so many files and images are fork-free and easily handled
by ShrinkIt 3.4.  Of course, you'll want an un-shrunk version.  ;-)

You will still have the unwanted resource fork problem.  I find
this characteristic of MacOS very annoying.  It is bound and
determined that every file it sees will get a resource fork
attached. ;-(  You will have to find the software to remove it.
Perhaps it's in the FAQ, at:

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html

>> 
>> 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.

No problem--welcome to the team!  (And the FAQ URL above is
a fine place to start getting your questions answered.)


-michael

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