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From: jimdean@bcrka125.bnr.ca (Jim Dean 1574326)
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Subject: Questions about GS/ShrinkIt, GS+ Mag, & System 5.0
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Date: 1 Mar 90 00:37:14 GMT
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Thank you to Dave Whitney and Andy Nicholas for providing BinSCII and
ShrinkIt via e-mail to those of us who missed it on the net and/or don't
have "ftp" ability.

I hope someone out there can set me straight on a few things that I have been 
puzzled about after reading the net for a couple of months:

1. Who is writing GS/ShrinkIt?  Is it Andy Nicholas, or is it Scott Lindsey
   of Claris, or is it a joint effort?  Scott, if you write it, will it become
   a Claris product, or will it be your own shareware or public domain product?
   Has it already been released, or is there an estimated release date?

2. My dealer handed me a /SYSTEM.DISK and a /SYSTEM.TOOLS (copies, without
   any docs, as per the rules) saying, "Here is system 5".  How can I tell if
   it is system 5.0, or 5.0.2, or what?  (Pardon my ignorance...I have avoided
   using the GS/OS, or indeed, any of the "Finder"s, until I built my hard-drive, 
   which I finally did last week.) Whatever it is, I have been using it and liking
   it.

3. Is there a kind soul out there who could e-mail or fax me a copy of the
   appropriate Tech Note(s) describing file formats for AppleWorks 2.1 and 3.0?

4. What is GS+ magazine? What level of user/hacker is it aimed at?  How can we 
   get it? I have seen references to it here in the net, but 
   have never heard of it, or seen it, anywhere else.

Thanks for any responses.  

I can be e-mailed at jimdean@bnr.ca on NETNORTH/BITNET ... don't use the address
in the header as I won't receive it.
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Jim Dean            |   Bell-Northern Research, Ltd    | "Badgers? We don't need no
Ph.: (613) 763-2135 |     P.O. Box 3511, Station C     |  stinkin' badgers." -- UHF
Fax: (613) 763-8825 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Y 4H7 |   (Raoul's Wild Kingdom)