Re: Appleworks GS

On Sep 7, 5:23 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Nels Bruckner" <ne...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:89062d03-5273-4121-8333-0d808495f3d1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Sep 7, 4:15 pm, Alex Lee <ale...@xxxxxxx> wrote:





On 2008-09-08 08:49:40 +1000, Drew <GoggleD...@xxxxxxxxx> said:

On Sep 7, 10:48 pm, Nels Bruckner <ne...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 7, 11:19 am, macdog <bigdog...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Whats the best source?

--Nels

Tryhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/

Jamie

Wow, thanks.

That brings up another question - the image of Appleworks GS, and
many other GS disk images that I have found, lack a file extension.
I've tried renaming the file to be a .shk, .dsk, ,po, etc, but none of
these options results in a viable disk image. How do you deal with
these 'no extension' files and end up with an Apple readable disk?

Thanks.

--Nels

Hi,

I find that the zip files on the whatistheapple2gs site don't open
well on PCs. I tend to use 7zip to unzip the file, and then use it
again to unzip the file without the extension that should get you the
four 2mg files in that archive (I have just tried it). Windows inbuilt
zip doesnt like the files from that site. On a Mac they all open fine..
You can get 7zip fromhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/

Cheers
Andrew

More specifically, the problem with the .zip files on the site seems to
be when they're downloaded with Internet Explorer 6 or 7. I will always
recommend that you browse the web with Firefox and not just for my site
either :-)
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- Alexhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/-Hide quoted text -

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     Too weird.

     I also eventually got the Appleworks GS archive to work (w/o
having to resort to Firefox, thankfully, since I find that browser to
be problematic, at best).  I found that if I open the archive using
WinRAR (though perhaps Windows built-in zip functionality would work
as well... haven't tried) and then double-click on the extensionless
file within (W/O extracting it first) and point the "open with" dialog
at the WinRAR.exe the archive will open up correctly.  When I followed
the same steps, but extracted the extensionless file first and renamed
it with a .zip extension, it did not work.

     Very bizzare.

     Thanks for the help everyone.

     --Nels

That isn't an extensionless file, it's a folder, AKA Directory.  

Bill Garber from GS-Electronicshttp://www.garberstreet.com- Hide quoted text -

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Actually, it appears to be zipped zip file, lacking an
extension. Very odd. Within the second zip file is indeed a
directory, which contains the .2mg files.

--Nels

p.s. The issue I encountered with the nested zip file not working
if it was extracted turned out to be pilot error. I just had to
download the file (with IE), unzip the extensionless file (with
WinRAR), rename it with a .zip extension, and then unzip that file
(agian, with WinRAR) to get at the images. Worked great.
.

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