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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS/OS available from apple.com!
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.163523.8498@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 90 16:35:23 GMT
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benji@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Benji Rudiak-Gould) writes:

>OK... so I ftp'd the system disk, mcverted it, and got a .sit.bin file.
>I knew that ShrinkIt would unpack that kind of file, so I downloaded it
>(took 45 min.) and opened it in GShk.  I click "Extract," and it prompts
>me, "put file(s) where?"  Apparently it doesn't recognize the StuffIt
>"dImg" format.

To make sure there's nobody left confused here, "dImg" is not a StuffIt format.
dImg is a Macintosh filetype (Mac filetypes are 4 bytes long and are usually
expressed in ascii) indicating an Apple DiskCopy document, which is the file
containing the disk image. Gshk is asking you where to put the disk image file,
and it will save it as an extended (data/resource) file with a prodos filetype
of binary.

I am currently adding the GS/OS device level code to diskcopy (which is written
entirely in ORCA/C with occasional asm{} statements for speed, BTW) and will
have a beta-quality version ready TODAY, for immediate posting on comp.binaries
so watch for it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS APPLE

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu