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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU
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Subject: Re: ShrinkIt bug?
Message-ID: <8905080416.AA06998@batman.moravian.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 04:16:05 GMT
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>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.

This is true.  There are a number of prompts within shrinkit which need to be
changed.  Off the top of my head -- if you try to unpack 1 archive, and it's 
not a NuFX archive, shrinkit will beep 3 times and say "finished" when it
never processed anything.  These will be fixed in a future revision
when I have time to do it.  I _am_ aware that some of the missing/erroneous
prompts exist, and _am_ listening... :-)

>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.

Uh, No.

ShrinkIT will attempt to unpack any archive that you tell it to, regardless of
filetype.  If the archive is not a NuFX archive (which shrinkit does NOT
need the filetype information to check), then you will be told that shrinkit
can't handle that particular archive and be allowe to keep processing the
other files selected.

I believe this is documented in the 2.01 and 2.02 docs.  Please (re)read them
throughly.

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

Uh, No.

(Honest, I'm not trying to act like a smart-aleck :-)  Actually, the additions
were adding to the _beginning_ of the docs.  As most people who know what
I'm working on will attest, I have very little time to work on docs... no
one has ever offered to clean up the docs for 1.0 and completely incorporate
2.0's features, so that will probably be left unattended. (Those of you who
know me will also attest to the fact that I write lousy end-user documentation,
too... :-)

>kreme@cup.portal.com 

andy

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