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From: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShrinkIt bug?
Message-ID: <608@greens.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 89 17:48:50 GMT
References: <8904290459.AA02590@obsolete.UUCP> <603@greens.UUCP> <17856@cup.portal.com>
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In article <17856@cup.portal.com>, Lewis Kreme Butler writes:
| I've actually have several problems with Shrinkit 2.01...
| 
| 1)  If you copy a file and there is not enough room to copy the file 
|     fully, there is no warning signal from Shrinkit.  It just doesn't
|     complete the copy.

It also has an additional problem of informing you that it has deleted a
file it was instructed to, when in fact it has not (i.e.: delete a directory
that has something in it, or delete a file on a write protected diskette)

| 2)  If the file type is not $E{any character} the file will not be recognized
|     as a NFuX file.  I have to use Copy ][+ or Block Warden to edit the file
|     type byte to $E0 from $04 (TXT), since most times a BBS sends a file as
|     E0 type.

Could it be, that that the BBS you are using, and your software is transferring
the file in ProDOS xmodem mode.  If it is, and the Aux FileType is not being
transferred corretly, your probably going to have this problem.  (If you do
a catalog, and the filetype is $E0, and the aux_filetype is not $8002, that
may be your problem.)

| 3)  The documentation is just Shrinkit 1.0 with addtions at the end, instead
|     of a comprehensive Doc file.

True, the docs could be better, but at least there is readable docs.
 
| The last is a minor point, but the first two are pretty serious.
| 
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