nicholaA@moravian.EDU (03/08/89)
I just sent murph sewall a copy of ShrinkIt 1.1 to post to apple2-L, along with
copies to any other people who requested it from me. v1.1 fixes the problem
packing a dos 3.3 disk, and adds a few minor goodies. The stuff which has
changed is mentioned in the documentation.
Those of you who have access to AppleLink PE can find the ShrinkIt v1.1 in
the utilities section under prodos 8 telecomunications utilities, and in the
telecommunications forum library under processing utilities.
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nicholaA@moravian.EDU (03/10/89)
ShrinkIt 1.1 should be available on apple2-L by now. I sent a copy to Murph
Sewall, and he sent one to Chris... so it 'should' be there by now.
You'll need a copy of BinSCII and BLU to extract the files.
If someone will quickly explain the address to send something to the
comp.apple.binaries (or whatever), I'll mail a copy there, os someone else
can do it. (hey, we don't use the InterNET, and as far as I know, CsNET
doesn't have a fileServer.. an info-server, yes... anyone else know?)
Oh yeah, and a few of you folks have expressed concern that I released "oh so
many versions of ShrinkIt" in 5 days (1.0 to 1.1) -- ShrinkIt 1.0 had a very
bad bug which justifiably *HAD* to be fixed. I consider being able to
correctly pack a disk (in 1.0) almost paramount to the algorithms working
correctly. If this bothers you, well, tough.
If the change in version numbers bothers you, I'm also one of those weird
folks who likes to take it easy on everyone's psyche and not use double digit
version numbers if at all possible. I hate having to remeber things like:
Version 3.41... an extra digit is just something extra to remember... which
is why ShrinkIt 1.0 "suddenly" jumped to 1.1 and not 1.01 -- I also try to
add something for everything I fix so that there is at least some extra
meaning to an update other than bug-fixes.
andy
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nicholaA@moravian.EDU (03/16/89)
> > >I unpacked a BNY file the other day, one that had squeezed files. Shrinkit >did not unsqueeze them, and I couldn't find any way to unsqueeze them at all. >I had to go back to BLU to get the files unsqueezed, and there it automaticall >recognized that there were squeezed files in the BNY file and unsqueezed them >on the fly. No muss, no fuss. ShrinkIT 1.1 will not automatically UNSQUEEZE records in a Binary II archive. It *WILL* extract the records from an archive, and then you can unsqueeze them from BLU or Don Elton's USQ utility. I and many others have tested this many times and as far as we know, it works fine... > David andy >-- >======== David Douthitt :::: Madison, WI :::: The Stainless Steel Rat ======== >FidoNet: 1:121/2 ::::: WittiNet: "Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice." :::::: >UseNet: ...{rutgers|ucbvax|harvard}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!rat >ArpaNet: madnix!rat@cs.wisc.edu {decvax|att}! ---- Andy Nicholas CsNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu Box 435, Moravian College InterNET: shrinkit%moravian.edu@relay.cs.net Bethlehem, PA 18018 liberty!batman!shrinkit@sun.com ---- UUCP: rutgers!lafcol!lehi3b15!mc70!shrinkit I have a CD player, send CD's. rutgers!liberty!batman!shrinkit I have a IIgs, send a GS+. ALink PE: shrinkit