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From: krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShrinkIt as disk archiver
Message-ID: <113300132@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 09:40:44 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!krb20699    Oct 25 06:41:00 1989


>In article <113300119@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>>     I've had a problem unpacking 800k disks.  They crash at various points
>>of the decompression, i.e. frozen thermometer.  Nothing obnoxious happens, it
>>resets back to the menu if I hit RESET, but the inability to unpack disks is
>>not convenient.

>Hey folks -- could you at LEAST post a more detailed decription of problems
>when you have them with shrinkit?  In this instance, it'd be nice to know
>what type of machine he has, what types of stuff he has IN the machine,
>what type of 3.5" drive he has (apple 3.5", unidisk, etc) and the program
>he was trying to unpack along with any sort of stuff you can figure out
>about what shrinkit's trying to do.

>I can't help you if I don't know what's going on... :-)

     Sorry.  Here it goes:  I have a ROM 01 GS, Apple 3.5" and 5.25" drives,
1.25 Meg, and a Datalink 2400 modem (if it matters) in slot 2.
     I'm running ShrinkIt versions 2.1, 2.02, and 0.97, all with the same
problem.  The disks I've tried to archive either contained Sys 4.0 and some
Sys16 files, or $C1 files.  I copy the SHK archive of the 800k disk to /RAM5,
and unpack it to S5,D1.  I've tried formatting the disk in drive 1 first, but
no go.  I've tried ProDOS 8 versions 1.7 and 1.8 over GS/OS v3.0, and I've
gone in through both the Shrinkit.System and Shrinkit SYS files.
     I can List Archive fine, and the decompression starts out ok, but when
it gets to about the midpoint (varies, +/- inch or so) of the thermometer,
the thermometer stops, and the drive light goes out...nothing.  The only thing
it responds to is RESET, which takes me to the main menu.
     I would assume that if ShrinkIt hit a corrupt file it would say so, not
go comatose so easily.  The files could have been corrupt, they had been on
a few pretty used disks, so it IS possible.  That's about all I can think of,
hope it helped.

>andy

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>----
>Andy Nicholas                       InterNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu
>Box 435, Moravian College               uucp: rutgers!liberty!batman!shrinkit 
>Bethlehem, PA,  18018    GEnie, AppleLink PE: shrinkit        CIS: 70007,3141 

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