Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!shrinkit
From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE!
Message-ID: <53650@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 04:02:33 GMT
References: <9106030406.AA20102@apple.com> <1991Jun4.013638.19227@rice.edu> <1991Jun4.163727.1892@rice.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Jun4.163727.1892@rice.edu> kenfair@flammulated.rice.edu (Kenneth Jason Fair) writes:

>	Unfortunately, ShrinktIt! and GShrinkit! do NOT support .Z
>uncompression at this time.

As you note below, GS-ShrinkIt does support .Z uncompressing.

>  A recent conversation with Andy Nicholas
>(author of ShrinkIt!) leads me to believe that this is one of the
>features he is working on supporting in his next major upgrade of
>ShrinkIt!

Funny, I don't recall this conversation, although I talk to enough people
in a week's time that I could have said almost anything... :-)

>Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately!) he is busy right
>now ironing out the final bugs of System 6.0 for Apple and hasn't had
>much time to spend with ShrinkIt!  (Correct me if I'm wrong, Andy!)

Huh?  I think you are drawing inferences that aren't correct -- I work
on the Finder, not anywhere else in Apple IIGS System Software.  The
Finder, and only the Finder (and believe me, it's more than enough! ;-)

>	Hrrrmmmph.  Oops.  GSHK does support .Z compression.
>Sorry, Andy.  It's _StuffIt_ compression he doesn't have installed yet.
>My fault.

I have no plans to add StuffIt compression to GS-ShrinkIt.  GS-ShrinkIt
already DECOMPRESSES StuffIt 1.5.1 files, and I have written to Aladdin yet
again asking for information on how to decode StuffIt Classic v1.6 and
StuffIt Deluxe files (which they will probably turn down.. again).

I may have said something about wanting to add PKZIP decompression along
with LZH decompression.

andy

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