sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) (01/27/89)
[ Grrrrr... one of these days I'm going to find a valid path from here to there!! Mark my words... ] >>The only problem (not really a "problem") is you may have to launch it from >>ProSEL or similar to get it to work. I say "problem" only because I have seen >>the same occur with other programs; they bomb from ProDOS but work when >>"launched"... It is such a GOOD program (and for FREE!!) that to know of its >>existance and to not try it at least once is foolhardy as well as a sign of >>ignorance... :-] hehehehee >Possibly worthwhile for distributing IIgs ONLY programs. The really >nice thing about BLU is that it'll run on any Apple II. Some of us who >do NOT own *gasp!!* a IIgs, nonetheless download software for club members >or others who do. In that event, ShrinkIt becomes "StinkIt" :-) >Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns >1/1/90] >Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET >Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] >U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] >-+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could > (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) Err..ahhmmm.. Excuse me Murph.. Nowhere in my original posting did I say the program was FOR or would ONLY RUN on a IIgs. I have a //e myself... And a later posting last night about version .95 told of the "launch" correction. BLU was (er, IS ) a very good program; one which I have used quite often and one that has always worked for me. Doesn't mean I can't find (or brag about) a newer, and better, packing program to use, does it? Andy Nicholas has done an =EXCELLENT= job on ShrinkIt and has plans for making it even better. The =BEST= part about ShrinkIt is we now have a similarly compatible (is that redundant) program for the Apple world now like PKPAK and PKunPAK for the MS-DOS world (used to be called PKARC and PKXARC before the lawsuit).. When he adds subdirectory and their files packing in version 1.1 he will have done it all. And I'm certain that Floyd Zink (if the name is wrong, I apologize) of BLU fame would be one of the first to applaud Andy's efforts. /steve system manager PS... I would've FAXed this to you but then I wouldn't have been able to have all this fun.. :-] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | UUCP: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider APPLELINK : sschneider | | ARPA: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider@nosc.mil COMPU$ERVE: 75166,2544 | | INET: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com GENIE : sschneider | | The RainForest @ 305-434-4927 / PO Box 841422, Pembroke Pines, Fl, 33084 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------