Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!moravian.EDU!nicholaA From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: I'm Miffed about binscii, shrinkit Message-ID: <8904050618.AA12401@batman.moravian.edu> Date: 5 Apr 89 06:18:24 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 58 >I am having a frustrating time with my appleIIe and these wonderful >programs that I am attempting to download. >All three verson of shrinkit (0.95, 1.0, 1.01) all print a 6 in the >upper left corner of the screen and then goes into the monitor at >the first press of any key. I can write an assembly program that is >much smaller that does the same thing. The lastest version had the >documents (surprise) with it. To my dismay, it says I need a 65C02 >and mousetext ROM (GS requirement?). I have never heard of this ROM. No, the MouseText ROM is for the Apple IIe. Apple refers to the machine as the "Enhanced IIe" -- if you have a IIc, IIc Plus, "Enhanced IIe", or Apple IIgs, the program should work fine. ShrinkIT vers 1.0 and 1.1 should print the message "65C02 AND MOUSETEXT REQUIRED" if your machine won't work with it. >I thought perhaps the II+ unshrink would do the job. I got that to >the point where it will run. I can go to the disk, select the file, >and that is it. There is *no* clue as to how to get it to unshrink. >Any key I press takes it back a menu level. Once you select the file you want to extract *FROM*, by pressing while the highlighter is ON TOP of the filename that is an archive, you should be shown a list of the contents of that archive. From there, press when the highlighter is ON TOP of each record in the archive that you want to extract FROM. An inverse ">" should appear by the filename (if you want to be prompted for where to put that record once ShrinkIT has started extracting the records, press "P" instead of for "Prompted" extractions). Once you have selected all the records WITHIN the archive you want to extract, press . You will then be asked on which volume you want to place the records - if the records you selected were files, or the volume you want a disk-record placed. It's really kind of simple from there. I apologize for the lack of documentation, but I'm a college student and don't get paid for what I've written so far, and really don't have enough time to document everything I have written properly. I'l probably start documenting alot of stuff properly over the summer when I don't have so much to do... The documentation for the ENHANCED IIE version of ShrinkIT covers most of the basics for extracting stuff from archives and what keys are valid at which dialogs. (yes, almost all of the key combinations work on the II+ versions as well as the IIe version). andy PS - There will be a conference on April 10 at 10:30 PM EST on ShrinkIT in the a2pro section of GEnie. I'll be there to answer any questions you folks might have. ---- Andy Nicholas CsNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu Box 435, Moravian College InterNET: shrinkit%moravian.edu@relay.cs.net Bethlehem, PA 18018 uucp: rutgers!lafcol!lehi3b15!mc70!shrinkit ---- ALink PE: shrinkit