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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU
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Subject: Re: ShrinkIt 1.0 Limits
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Date: 7 Mar 89 22:06:16 GMT
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>In article <8903061036.AA22851@batman.moravian.edu> nicholaA@moravian.EDU wri
>>There are a few limits that ShrinkIt has that everyone needs to be aware of.
> [oodles of limits]

>>ShrinkIt has problems archiving sparse files.  Do not try archiving sparse
>>files. (The archive becomes corrupted if you do)

> Yikes!  If I remember correctly, the GS/OS Finder turns files with lots of
> zeroes into spares files automatically when it copies them.  This is a
> serious problem for //gs users.

This has been fixed in v1.1 of ShrinkIt.  You can archive sparse files, but
when you extract them, they will no longer be sparse. (the 0's will be for
real, not imaginary as does the ProDOS FST) -- a simple solution (kludge)
would be to then copy the extracted file using the finder if having all
those consecutive 0's creates a problem.  There currently isn't an easy way
to archive/extract sparse files verbatim under ProDOS/8.  ShrinkIt/GS
won't have this problem (for obvious reasons).

> -- 
> fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
> labc-3dc@widow.berkeley.edu
>
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