Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!shrinkit
From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ARC, ZIP, GSHK
Message-ID: <50984@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 91 08:06:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.003528.9502@isis.cs.du.edu> <1991Mar29.230119.10221@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Mar29.230119.10221@agate.berkeley.edu> terryy@plague.Berkeley.EDU (Terry Yeung) writes:

>One thing you should know about is that when GSHK unpacks ARC, Unix Compress,
>StuffIt or Zoo files it'll save the unpacked file as a binary file and you'll
>have to change the file type yourself.  Hope this is of use to you.

In v1.0.3 and v1.0.4 of GS-ShrinkIt, there is a preference for whether you want
your ARC or ZOO files saved as TXT or BIN -- GSHK tries to "intuit" whether
the thing inside a StuffIt archive should have TXT or BIN.  Files with
HFS Filetype TEXT are created as TXT files.  Files with creator type "pdos"
will get their correct ProDOS filetype/auxtype combination set.

One thing I did notice lately is that there is somethign I missed -- if you are
extracting a StuffIt file onto an AppleShare fileserver, GS-ShrinkIt won't
set the HFS filetype and HFS creator at all.  This is an oversight on my part.

andy



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