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From: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShrinkIt as disk archiver
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Date: 28 Oct 89 23:27:34 GMT
References: <8910181938.aa02374@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <2968@husc6.harvard.edu> <442@batman.moravian.EDU>
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In article <442@batman.moravian.EDU> nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) writes:
<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 you're using a gs, the copy of HyperC at husc6 doesn't work, since it
has a BRK, which causes a jump to the language card on a IIe, but to ROM
on the gs (or something like that), so it hangs upon boting.  To get it
working, enter the monitor, enter E1:0010: 5C D4 D0 00, and boot with
6 ctrl-p. I also have a patch for the disk, but I haven't tried it yet.

>andy



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