matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products) (10/17/89)
Msg#:23989 *Apple Echo*
10/11/89 14:26:00
From: RICK DIFFLEY
To: ADAM PLOTKIN
Subj: RE:SHRINKIT GS
Introducing: ShrinkIt for the Apple IIgs
L&L Productions, Inc. is happy to announce the release of ShrinkIt
for the IIgs. We are very excited the author, Andy Nicholas,
has decided to have us market it for him. The following list of
features are just some of the many that the finished product will
have. Use the convenient order form to order your copy today
only $39.00. (Shipping date is November 15, 1989.)
* Completely rewritten and optimized 16-bit assembler routines are
used for compressing and decompressing files. Both the LZW and
Huffman code has been rewritten from SCRATCH. For this reason,
decompressing and compressing files and disks is much faster.
the Huffman(SQ) data compression method. SQueezed files that
would usually take 20 seconds to unpack will now take only 10!
25-40% speed improvement over the Apple IIe version of ShrinkIt,
which is twice as fast as StuffIt for the Macintosh. Adding a
TransWarp GS to ShrinkIt should give performance which exceeds
that of a Macintosh IIcx or SE/30.
* Uses the Apple Desktop interface to provide the easiest archive
solution for both novice and advanced users.
* ShrinkIt can archive, compress, and extract files with resource
forks.
* ShrinkIt can transparently open and extract from 9 different types
of common Apple II archives:
- NuFX Archives used by ShrinkIt for the Apple IIe. //c and ][+
- Binary II files used by most major terminal programs and
Floyd Zink's Binary Library Utility (BLU)
- AppleLink Compression Utility (ACU) files
- SQ files (SQueezed files)
- AppleSingle files
- NuFX Archives within Binary II files
- Binary II files within Binary II files
- ACU archives within Binary II files
- AppleSingle files within Binary II files
* Different "filters" are provided so that only files used by ShrinkIt
are available for selection, this allows the user to quickly and
easily pick files for shrinking, unshrinking, etc.
* ShrinkIt has an alternate method for creation, extraction and
transfer of files that contain resource forks. This method is
endorsed by Apple Computer, Inc. and is called "AppleSingle
Format"
* ShrinkIt can delete records from archives which contain multiple
records.
* ShrinkIt can alphabetically sort archives which have multiple
records.
* ShrinkIt allows the user to add and edit comments about an
archive in both AppleSingle and NuFX archives.
* ShrinkIt makes intelligent use of all available memory to speed
compressing and decompressing of files. In simpler terms, the
more memory your Apple IIgs has, the faster ShrinkIt will
compress/uncompress your archive.
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Hope this information adds to your knowledge about ShrinkIt/GS. I ob-
tained this info from the A2RT on GEnie.
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