Re: Help with getting s/w onto my IIc+

[lee.1570@osu.edu (Nathan C. Lee)]

Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote:

Thanks very much. I appreciate your detailed help. I just began my
spring break, so I won't be around the IIc for a while to see if it
works, but I'll certainly check it out then. Do you know a way to
prevent this from happening in the future when I transfer files from my
Mac to the IIc? Bye.

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> In article <B4F71756.9859%lee.1570@osu.edu>, "Nathan C. Lee"
> <lee.1570@osu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> >  Hello, I just got a IIc+ from a local high school that didn't want it
> >anymore. I managed to get two additional disk drives and a mouse for it, so
> >there's some great potential to have some fun with it. Well, I was able to
> >get ProDos from Apple, by downloading a disk image. I then tried to get some
> >software to run on it, which I downloaded from the Caltech archives, but
> >they are in .shk format, which I apparently need Shrinkit34.bsc to
> >decrompress, but in order to use Shrinkit34.bsc, I need to use binscii.exe,
> >however I can't get it to run. In its directions, it says to type
> >
> >exec binscii.exe
> >
> >in order to make a .sys file of the same name, which will be able to make
> >sense of Shrinkit34.bsc, which will be able to make sense of other programs.
> >I'm not able to execute the exec command, though for some reason, and the
> >IIc+ tells me that it's because of a FILE TYPE MISMATCH, which I assume
> >means that it has the wrong three-letter filetype. Currenly, after
> >transferring the file from my Mac, it has the file type of $00, according to
> >the CAT command, and it should apparently be something else. I'm pretty new
> >to ProDos, so I really don't know much of what's going on here. I appreciate
> >any help. email me at the above address, please. Bye.
> 
> 
> The file has lost the correct file type. It should be a text file, file type
> 4 or TXT. The EXEC command is for executing text files which is why ProDOS
> is complaining.
> 
> The easiest way to change it would be with a utility program. If you don't
> have one try this...
> 
> press escape then 8 to put the display into 80 column mode
> 
> type CATALOG
> 
> note the endfile (length) for the file binscii.exe
> 
> load the file into memory with
>   BLOAD BINSCII.EXE,T0,A$2000
> 
> create a new file with the correct type
>   CREATE BINSCII.TEXT,T4
> 
> save the memory contents to the new file
>   BSAVE BINSCII.TEXT,T4,A$2000,Lnnnn 
>     where nnnn is the length you got from the catalog
> 
> then EXEC BINSCII.TEXT (hopefully)
> 
> 
> Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws
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> As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.