Subject: NuLib II (was Re: Help with LARGE ShrinkIt file! Better emulators?)
From: fadden@netcom.com (Andy McFadden)
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Date: 17 Dec 1999 21:37:36 GMT
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In article <38554082.A658EB2A@NO.ml.SPAM.com>,
Brian J. Bernstein <bernstbj@NO.ml.SPAM.com> wrote:
>I have three archive files, but one contains about 950 files. Using
>ShrinkIt 1.1 (the only version I've had that works), it is able to
>display the contents of the archive, but when I try to extract the
>files, it dumps into the monitor.

Can you send me ShrinkIt 1.1?  I'd like to do some tests with it.  (You'll
see why below.)

I was able to create a hard drive image with a program whose name I forget;
somebody over on comp.sys.apple2 will know.  It creates a 2MG image file of
the entire hard drive parition.  I used it on 20MB disk partitions, and was
able to boot my hard drive under KEGS.  (XGS has a funny smartport issue
that Kent fixed in KEGS... has to do with the weird way I boot GS/OS from
ProSel-8.  I can still boot P8 with XGS though, so the image is good.)

>Any ideas? I know I could probably use the NuLib program, but that will
>kill the address and type of my files (no?). Most of it is text, but I'd
>rather not spend hours converting these files. If someone has a Binary
>][ image of a working ShrinkIt that they'd be willing to mail me, I'd
>love to try that. I've just had no luck, and my disks are disintegrating

I have, off and on, been working on a replacement for NuLib.  I also have
some rather large ShrinkIt archives that I've been trying to deal with,
notably the contents of an 80MB hard drive, and NuLib just wasn't up to the
task.

The replacement is currently called "nulib2".  There are a couple of
features that are relevant for you:

(1) It's written in two pieces, a library (nufxlib) and a command-line
application (nulib2).  This should allow a GUI interface to be developed
without a whole lot of pain, and would also allow emulator authors to
handle ShrinkIt-compressed disk images transparently.

(2) It can extract files in a way that preserves filetypes and resource
forks.  See http://www.nulib.com/nulib2.txt for details.

The original plan was to develop the library, nulib2 command-line app,
and a Win32 GUI interface, but I'm going to be joining a small startup
in a couple of weeks and my free time will mostly evaporate.  The library
is about 90% complete, which isn't enough for a release just yet.

There are, of course, many other improvements in nulib2, but I'm trying
not to ship a vaporware release. :-)

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