Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!n8emr!lwv From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Hyper C Keywords: C Message-ID: <827@n8emr.UUCP> Date: 24 Feb 89 14:37:43 GMT References: <969@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Distribution: na Organization: Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1) Lines: 40 Here in Central Ohio, we got parts 0-3 on one day, and parts 4-7 on another (the next? I dont remember). So all 8 parts did arrive. Last nite I downloaded all 8 parts to my machine. I used binscii 1.01 to decode it. I got no error messages, and I was not told whether I was missing any parts, etc. I then ran ShrinkIt 0.95. It told me that the LBR type file was a 140k disk image. It showed me that I had '4' drives online. 2 were 3.5" and 2 were 5.25". It asked me where I wanted to unshrink the file. I said one of my 3.5" and shrinkit said , in effect, 'no way'. So I put a disk in my 5.25" (i hate those things) and said to use s6d1. It said that my drive was write protected. What REALLY was the problem is that I had the slot 6 turned to disk port - and there was no disk drive there. For some reason shrinkit thought there was a drive there. I turned the slot to my card and fooled around until I got the GS to change its mind about the slot. I then tried shrinkit again. This time I was told that the disk wasnt formatted - probably true. I told shrinkit to format it and it did, though it didnt ask me what name to call the volume. I then got to select the only item in this library so that i could unpack it. The drive hummed and shreeked a while while the to be done bar was filling up. Finally shrinkit was done. I backed up a menu and selected catalog. I tried to select the 5.25" drive, but shrinkit claimed there wasnt anything there. So I left shrinkit and tried cataloging the disk from davex/ecp8 - no good. Then I went to the Apple Sys.Utils utiltiy to see if perhaps this was a DOS 3.3 disk. No good - sysutil.system says that the disk 'contains a foreign operating system or is otherwise unreadable' or words to that effect. I think that binscii and shrinkit has some checksumming dont they - so that they can tell if the file being processed has been corrupted? If not, PLEASE add this to the commands! Otherwise, folks spend a lot of wasted time. As for the problem being discussed, did anyone check to be sure that the disk that was packaged was indeed a working disk? -- Larry W. Virden 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 75046,606 (CIS) ; LVirden (ALPE) ; osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) The world's not inherited from our parents, but borrowed from our children.