) (03/06/91)
I have been informed numerous times that GSHK 1.0.4 and Shrinkit 3.2 would unpack ARC and ZIP files. However, after trying to unpack a file that was sent to me in ARC format, and another in ZIP format, I have gotten exactly nowhere with either version of Shrinkit. The files were uploaded to my GS from an IBM machine, and are sitting in the IBM section of my SuperTac. I don't know what I'm foing wrong, but both Shrinkits tell me that the files are "unkown archive type." Needless to say, this is frustrating. Anyone out there have any advice or help for me? -- | kreme@nyx.cs.du.edu |The Coven BBS (303) 777 2911 PCP via CODEN Stalr*nk too| |---------------------|100 Megs of storage. Areas for IBM/MAC/Apple. Games. | | 'Take a couple of days off' you said 'I've got everything under control' | | you said -- Lord Julius
terryy@plague.Berkeley.EDU (Terry Yeung) (03/30/91)
In article <1991Mar6.003528.9502@isis.cs.du.edu> kreme@isis.UUCP (Name? I don't need no stinking name!) writes: >I have been informed numerous times that GSHK 1.0.4 and Shrinkit 3.2 would >unpack ARC and ZIP files. However, after trying to unpack a file that was >sent to me in ARC format, and another in ZIP format, I have gotten exactly >nowhere with either version of Shrinkit. The files were uploaded to my GS >from an IBM machine, and are sitting in the IBM section of my SuperTac. I >don't know what I'm foing wrong, but both Shrinkits tell me that the files >are "unkown archive type." Needless to say, this is frustrating. Anyone >out there have any advice or help for me? I have been able to unpack some ARC files that I've downloaded from BBSes with no real problems using GSHK 1.0.3. As far as I know GSHK can not unpack ZIP files and Shrinkit 3.2 can't unpack either one. If you are getting an 'unknow archive type' error the file might have been corrupted on uploading. One thing you should know about is that when GSHK unpacks ARC, Unix Compress, StuffIt or Zoo files it'll save the unpacked file as a binary file and you'll have to change the file type yourself. Hope this is of use to you. Terry Yeung \ Internet: terryy@OCF.Berkeley.EDU Vice President External Affairs \ FidoNet: Terry Yeung @ 1:125/27 Cal-Animage, UC Berkeley \ RBBS-Net: Terry Yeung @ 8:914/207
shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) (03/30/91)
In article <1991Mar29.230119.10221@agate.berkeley.edu> terryy@plague.Berkeley.EDU (Terry Yeung) writes: >One thing you should know about is that when GSHK unpacks ARC, Unix Compress, >StuffIt or Zoo files it'll save the unpacked file as a binary file and you'll >have to change the file type yourself. Hope this is of use to you. In v1.0.3 and v1.0.4 of GS-ShrinkIt, there is a preference for whether you want your ARC or ZOO files saved as TXT or BIN -- GSHK tries to "intuit" whether the thing inside a StuffIt archive should have TXT or BIN. Files with HFS Filetype TEXT are created as TXT files. Files with creator type "pdos" will get their correct ProDOS filetype/auxtype combination set. One thing I did notice lately is that there is somethign I missed -- if you are extracting a StuffIt file onto an AppleShare fileserver, GS-ShrinkIt won't set the HFS filetype and HFS creator at all. This is an oversight on my part. andy -- Andy Nicholas GEnie & America-Online: shrinkit Apple Computer, Inc. CompuServe: 70771,2615 Apple IIGS System Software InterNET: shrinkit@apple.com I'm doing this on my own time, so I don't speak for Apple.