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    From aguilar@aguilar@onixinformatica.com.br (Jose Carlos Lord Apple) to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 15:18:21
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    Hi,

    Where can I get the ShrinkitGS ? Does it can create multiple volumes ?
    Does exists any software that can I use to compact 800 Kb disk in
    multiples 140 Kb disks ?

    Thanks.

    Jose Carlos
    Brazil
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  • From Andy McFadden@fadden@fadden.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 23:47:04
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Jose Carlos Lord Apple <aguilar@onixinformatica.com.br> wrote:
    Where can I get the ShrinkitGS ? Does it can create multiple volumes ?
    Does exists any software that can I use to compact 800 Kb disk in
    multiples 140 Kb disks ?

    If I understand your question correctly, you want to compress an 800K
    disk and then split it up so that it fits on multiple 140K floppies. GS/ShrinkIt does not do that for you, but there are utilities that will.
    (I think Davex, a P8 command line utility, had a split/join feature, but
    I'm not sure. GNO/ME probably has the standard utils.)

    If your only interest in GS/ShrinkIt is the possibility of spanning
    across multiple volumes, then there's not much point in using it over
    P8 ShrinkIt (except perhaps for the slightly improved compression).
    If you're still interested, it can be found as a self-extracting archive
    here: http://www.nulib.com/library/index.htm

    On the same site: the NuLib2 program handles ShrinkIt archives, and works
    on a variety of platforms.

    GSHK can be found ready-to-run in an 800K disk image here:
    http://www.fadden.com/faddensoft/ciderpress/tutorial/cp-samples.zip

    The disk image has a set of sample files for CiderPress, and includes
    (among other things) GS/ShrinkIt and DOS33Launcher.

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