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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShrinkIt as disk archiver
Message-ID: <445@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 89 12:23:33 GMT
References: <113300132@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
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In article <113300132@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>      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

[... stuff deleted ...]

>      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.

Actually, if you'd have hit bad data it would have much more easily have
given you a little message that says "Data Corrupted, Err $81" in version 2.1
of shrinkit. (3.0 and GSSHK shouldn't do that because they can unpack the
file/disk and tell you what portion was blown).

I'm not exactly sure from your description what's wrong with either shrinkit
of the files you are unpacking, but you are correct in saying that shrinkit
shouldn't hang when unpacking.

My advice (not worth much) is that you first make sure the disk you are
formatting is 100% OK, and then check the archive that you are unpacking
to be sure that it's also 100% ok (you can do this by archiving another 3.5"
disk on your own and then unpacking it to be sure that that option works
correctly on your machine).

If you notice anything else bizzare going on, by all means let us know and
someone on the net will probably have a fix for you... :-)

andy

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