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From: andyt@pro-exchange.cts.com (Andy Thomason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: ShrinkIt problems(?)
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Date: 6 May 89 09:33:12 GMT
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To: Andy Nicholas
I hope that this is newsworthy to you.  It is ported from Washington Apple Pi
in Washington, D.C.  [btw: 301/986-8085]
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[W.A.Pi address header - Dan Hughes]
Has any one noticed this major bug in Shrinkit 2.01 (I don't know about the
latest version since I just downloaded it this session.) Anyway, after
launching Shrinkit from the GS Finder, shrinking a file and do any other
business I may have in the program, I quit and bomb into the Finder. Every
Time! The bomb come when I attempt to run another 8-bit program, usually
Mousetalk. Then one a warm reboot, I lose my hard disk and the Finder show
just my ROM disk mounted. NO hard disk at all. It is necessary to Shut down
and turn off my hard disk and the computer in order to restore my Hard disk. I
am going to test out the new version of Shrinkit later tonight, but if it
causes the same problem, I'm going back to Blu 2.28. Maybe the mavens of WAP
downloading have been too rash in accepting this Shrinkit as the new standard
and summarily discarding a dependable old standby.

[W.A.Pi address header - Dale Smith/reply to Dan Hughes]
I have been using ShrinkIT in much the same way as you but nover encountered
the bug - I usually go to ProTERM as a followon program.  Hey, maybe it's
telling you "Don't use Flounder"  :)) - I will check it out some more.  Of
course I NEVER use Finder except to activate/deactivate drivers/DAs.

[next message, still Dale Smith]

Well, I just did the following (contrary to my normal practice):

        Boot into ProSel-16
        Goto Device 1
        Select Finder from the */SYSTEM directory
        Launch ShrinkIT 2.02
        Unshrink the GEnie.BITS.SHK file
        Type the GENIE.BITS file
        Quit ShrinkIT 2.02 back to Finder (waiting impatiently of System 5.0!)
        Launch ProTERM from /RAM5/PT
        ** !! NO CRASH !! **
        Now online with that (but only 2/3 of the scrollback I normally have).

It seems to me there may be something else causing the problem.  Actually, I
have been told that the bug fixes in v2.02 are for obscure and infrequently
encountered bugs, not something that would be as common as this.
[... more notes about updates.]
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Any ideas may be posted to me here or to Dale Smith (dales@pro-novapple).
Thanks...

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