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From: andyn@pro-sol.cts.com (Andy Nicholas)
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Subject: ShrinkIt
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Date: 29 Jan 89 08:38:59 GMT
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As Steve Schneider noted earlier, ShrinkIt is a utility program designed to
archive files and/or disks in NuFX archives.

ShrinkIt uses a variant of straight Dynamic LZW compression to pack fairly
quickly and efficiently.

When you want to extract records from the archive, a list of the contents of
the entire archive and the attributes of each record are displayed for the
user to choose which records he'd like extracted.  This way, multiple disks
can be archived in a single file, as can disks and files mixed together, and
so on.  There is an option to add files or disks to an existsing archive. 
There will be an option for deleting an individual record in the future, but
right now doing something like sorting an archive alphabetically is next to
impossible. (this was suggested to me at the beginning of this week).

ShrinkIt 0.95 is the current version.  You should be aware that I consider
this to be pre-release software.  The only reason I released it to the public
is because I needed alot of feedback on what works and what doesn't work on
which machines.  I only have a IIgs, so that kind of makes it hard to test
ShrinkIt on an enhanced IIe, IIc (all 5? revs), or IIc Plus.  So far Ive
gotten adequate feedback, but I haven't been overwhelmed... otherwise I would
normally have given ShrinkIt to a close group of friends to test for me and
gotten 000% feedback and ShrinkIt would be a much worse product.


I'd like to thank Morgan Davis for being such a help so far with molding
ShrinkIt and prodding me to change the user-interface to something usable.

If you'd like to get a copy of ShrinkIt via modem, 0.95 is available on
AppleLink PE in the telcom forum under processing utilities in their software
library, or... the Download Library of pro-sol [619-670-5379].

I'm a college student at Moravian College in the lehigh valley in
Pennsylvania.  When I get back to college, I'll be able to post copies of
ShrinkIt to bitnet and the like with executioner.

andy nicholas


CSNET     : nicholaA@moravian.edu
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USMAIL    : Andy Nicholas, Box 435
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