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

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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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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