Subject: Re: SHK and 2Mg
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"Steven M. Fish" writes ...
> 
 ....

> Now if I could just figure out
> how to get files that are larger than what will fit on a floppy into
> the GS from the web, I'll be in better shape.  Are there any Mac
> utilities for getting 2Mg files onto floppy?  If not, is there any
> other way to get these files in a useable form into my IIgs?  I've read
> about the direct serial port transfer, but isn't there a more elegant
> solution?
 ....

     There's the Vulcan Mind Meld with your IIgs; but, details on that
process are sketchy.

     If your Mac has some way to create .zip files, you could squish the .2MG
files down to a size that may fit on an 800k diskette. On the IIgs, PMPunZIP
will unzip most standard .zip files to some larger medium-- like a hard disk
or large RAM disk.

     The same basic idea may work for Mac-created .shk files. (Use ShrinkIt
or the Balloon NDA to uncompress the .shk files.)



Rubywand