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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShrinkIt as disk archiver
Message-ID: <442@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 25 Oct 89 20:53:27 GMT
References: <8910181938.aa02374@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <2968@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
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In article <2968@husc6.harvard.edu>, huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang)
writes:

>I don't know that this is a problem with ShrinkIt itself, but after
>I downloaded the HyperC files from husc6 and unarchived it (it's a 
>compressed 140K disk), the disk wouldn't boot properly.  Of course
>this could be a problem with HyperC and not ShrinkIt.

Howard, could you like email me the file you downloaded? (i don't have
access to any ftp sites without more work than I have time for right now :)

I recall that there was a problem with HyperC using a non-standard OS
whose structure was like that of ProDOS and when earlier versions of ShrinkIt
before 2.1 went to pack the whole disk, it would try to auto-optimize the
disk and munge it incredibly.

In other words if you get an original of Hyper-C and then pack it with 
ShrinkIt 2.1 that shouldn't happen any more.  The problem is that all these
sites have HyperC packed with Shrinkit 1.x or 2.0x...  

If, however, you repack it and you have many of the same problems, let me
know because that should *NOT* happen with ShrinkIt 2.1.  And yes, please
beware of the bug in Shrinkit 2.1 when formatting 5.25" disks when you've
launched Shrinkit 2.1 from System 5.0 or 5.0.2... it will not format the
disk correctly and you subsequently end up with it hollering "I/O Error"
at you.  This happens ONLY with 5.25" disks, ONLY when launched from System 5.0
(as far as I know).  If you have ShrinkIt 2.1a from AppleLink PE (er,
America Online) then this bug has been fixed in that copy.  Shrinkit 3.0
doesn't have this problem (let's certainly hope not... geez... :-)

andy

yes, to those on the net, I suddenly discovered that vnews has an "f" key. :-)

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