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From: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Shrinkit problems
Keywords: Shrinkit
Message-ID: <2024@carroll1.cc.edu>
Date: 12 Aug 90 17:27:48 GMT
References: <14486@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron)
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In article <14486@wpi.wpi.edu> gerardo@wpi.wpi.edu (Gerardo Leute) writes:
>I've been having some problems getting some of the files at the ftp site
>tybalt.caltech.edu to work for me.  They FTP just fine, I download them to my
>IIgs, no problem there.  I then run the files through Binscii v. 1.0.3 (is
>there a newer, more user friendly, version?) and then try to run the file it
>produced through Shrinkit 2.01.  Shrinkit shows me that there are several
>files, but _none_ of these files have *names*. Thus, Shrinkit cannot unpack
>them because of a Prodos error -- can't save a file without a name, right? 
>---
>Gerardo Leute			"Home is where the heart lies,
>   				 but when the heart lies, where is home?"
>      gerardo@wpi.wpi.edu

This is because you are trying to unshrink an archive that was made with
ShrinkIt 3.0 or newer.  You need to get a hold of ShrinkIt 3.0.3 (current
version) in order to handle these archives properly.  ShrinkIt 3.0.3 will
process the new archives and the old without a hitch.

As for how you are going to get a newer ShrinkIt if it's shrunk with
ShrinkIt 3.0 or newer, is an interesting question.  I'm sure that someone
out there can pack up ShrinkIt 3.0.3 with version 2.1 and run it through
BinSCII for you.

-- 
This is my ".sig" file.  (I can tell, you're excited now....)
Ron
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