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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
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Subject: ShrinkIt
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Date: 19 Feb 89 08:10:22 GMT
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There seemed to be much concern on GEnie that a II+/Unenhanced IIe version
of ShrinkIt wasn't avilable. -- There will be.  I just happen to only have
2 hands, and am finishing up v1.0 of the real ShrinkIt that works on the
majority of machines out there.  ShrinkIt for the II+ will be in 40 columns,
sport nothing of a decent user-interface (no highlighter bar selection,
you'll have the type the names of all the files you want added to an
archive, not just "check them off" as you do now with ShrinkIt), and there
will be no provision for disk-swapping (or file swapping), and it also
will only be able to: (1) shrink files/disks (2) unshrink files/disks
(3) add to existing archives (4) list archives -- period, there simply isn't
enough space for anything else in a 64k II+ machine.

There will be a IIGS version of ShrinkIt (ShrinkIt/GS) available sometime
probably in late spring.  I have to do some additional research on
data compression algorithms for my independent study this semester before
I beginto code the thing... a good bet would be to corner me at 
AppleFest in Boston. :)

andy