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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shrinkit/GS
Summary: Sigh... Hey John (Snow)
Keywords: shrinkit, gs, gsos
Message-ID: <1083@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 22 Feb 90 03:16:40 GMT
References: <4195@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
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In article <4195@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:

> The POINT is that
> upon unpacking this sucker it's instructions specifically say that you
> need to unpack a resultant file with Shrinkit/GS or some other program
> that came with it because the Snowterm program had resource forks.

Yep, What I understood John Snow was going to do was to put out the program
as an AppleSingle file.  That is, anyone can make an AppleSingle maker
(it's fairly easy, just read the technote) so they can interpret files
which have been put in Applesingle format.

GS/ShrinkIt can MAKE AppleSingle files, and it can also EXTRACT AppleSingle
files. (ok, it can do a lot more, but I digress...)

AppleSingle files are *NOT* proprietary to GS/ShrinkIt... hmmm... come to think
of it, nothing is proprietary to GS/ShrinkIt.  Huh, how about that?

> Like when did Shrinkit/GS come out?

It didn't.

> I never heard anything (and I
> forget which Andy is which or even their addresses to 'mail' em).  Or is
> this program just getting packed via some temporary program?  I'd ask
> John Snow (who posted snowterm and author right?) but I can't mail to
> UUCP sites.

John asked for a copy of GS/ShrinkIt (beta) to make sure that HIS AppleSingle
maker could properly work with GSSHK's AppleSingle maker/extractor.  John
said both programs worked fine (amazing, huh? :) so I guess he decided to
plop SnowTerm 2.0 in an AppleSingle file and send it out with his own
AppleSingle maker/extractor.
 
> SOOO, what is the scoop???  Is it done, was it just generated by a
> beta/temporary program, what's up?  I recall Andy (whichever, sorry I
> can never keep you two straight, you know who you are tho :) had 8 (?)
> things left to do for it, but that was some time back.

No, actually, I'm past the point of keeping count of "things to do" since
there are so many...
 
> -k

andy

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