[Coco] Downloading software from Larry Greenfield's site?

jimcox at miba51.com jimcox at miba51.com
Sat Dec 13 11:24:08 EST 2003


Thanks everyone regarding The Compressor, now I just have 
to download it, and get it to run.  Just be looking at the 
path, it looks like it's meant to run on a CoCo, so I 
still need to move it to the PC.  Clifford and Robert have 
both suggested using RS-232, and I'm going to try that.

Jim

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 02:45:05 -0700
  Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:
>>From: <jimcox at miba51.com>
>>Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:06:58 -0800
>
>>Where can I find "The Compressor" which is software to 
>>un-ARC software with the .ARC extension.
>
>RTSI has it:  ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/RSDOS/UTIL/tc.bin 
>there's also
>tc512k.bin if you've got a 512K CoCo3.
>>
>There's also a version on the Princeton archive,
>http://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/princeton_coco_files/tc2.cuts 
>tc3.cuts
>and tc3.doc  but I think that tc512k.bin is the newest 
>version.  I
>found it to be pretty straight-forward to use.
>
>(To use the stuff from the Princeton archive, first 
>you'll need CUTS,
>...princeton_coco_files/cuts.bas)
>
>>As for programs with .DSK extension, Larry say's in his 
>>site, that I need to Dshrink to un-shrink these files 
>>since they are in DSHRINK format.  Where can I find 
>>Dshrink?
>
>on os9archive.  RSDOS/UTIL/dshrink.bin
>
>It is very confusing that the dshrink compressed disk 
>images have the
>same extention as emulator virtual disks.  They are 
>different.  Also,
>The Compressor .arc files are not PKARC type arc files. 
>
>There's LOTS of other goodies on RTSI and the old 
>Princeton archive.
>Check it out.
>>
>>Jim
>
>Willard
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