Re: My Asimov and Cabi archives, and a great lil' Utility too!!

[glue@apple2.com (Glue Sniffin' Ed)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Ackeret [mailto:mattack@area.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 2:39 PM
> To: glue@apple2.com
> Subject: Re: Uncook win32 utility - uncook95.exe
> 
> 
> In article <37849c67.907496@news.gte.net> you write:
> >
> >begin 644 uncook95.exe
> >M35J0``,````$````__\``+@`````````0```````````````````````````
> 
> This is an APPLE II newsgroup.

No shit????  are you serious????  HOLY CRAP!!!!  All this time I
thought this was a newsgroup for people who own a minimum of 2 apple
trees!!!!

> 
> 	You posted this article to comp.binaries.apple2.
> 
> 	comp.BINARIES.apple2 (emphasis mine) is only for BINARY posts.
> In other words, it is only for PROGRAMS, no discussion.
> 
>         You can cancel articles.  In rn or trn, type C at a 
> prompt during or
> immediately after reading the message.  Other newsreaders have similar
> capabilities. PASS IT ON!

Why would I want to cancel this???

If you would take the time to read the post in the DISCUSSION
group...comp.sys.apple2  you MIGHT actually figure out WHY this file
was posted here!!!  SO....to summarize for you!!!!!!!!!!

often times web servers do NOT know how to handle apple type files
(shk, sdk, po, dc, etc etc etc!!!) so they send them as TEXT mode
files by default.  This is due to the fact that the server admin has
NOT properly set up his MIME types in the server to recognize that
these files should be sent as BINARY files...and not as TEXT files.
Also....quite obviously....many apple2 people like myself use a
windows machine or a macintosh to download our apple2 software off the
web.....and NOT an apple2.  It really sucks to have it end up being
sent as a text file.  This utility.....for win32 machines
anyways......will strip the CR's and linefeeds from the file.....and
effectively repair it so it is a BINARY type file.  You can now use
this binary file....and un shrink, etc the file on your apple2.  Text
mode files are useless.

Please understand what you are bitching about BEFORE you attempt to
become a member of the self proclaimed usenet gods!!!

> -- 
> mattack@area.com
> 

Thank you....and have a simply wonderful day :-)

:-)EdOn Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:28:40 GMT, glue@apple2.com (Glue Sniffin' Ed) wrote:

>First off...I'd like to say.....AcK!!!!!!  I hate wind@ws 98!!!!!
>Since my recent Linux crash, I have been running my FTP and web server
>off win98....basically...what I'm trying to say is....it crashes a
>lot.  I was out of town the past couple 3'ish days....and returned
>home to find that my computer was blue screened.  This never happened
>with Linux :-)  I also cannot go back to Linux until device drivers
>are made for the new kernel.  I upgraded my kernel to fix security
>leaks in the 2.2.19 kernel....and lost my sb live sound card, and my
>i740 video card in the process.  This was no real surprise...as both
>these are NOT currently supported under Linux...and had to be hacked
>to work at all.  Please bear with me, and realize that the servers may
>crash from time to time while they are running on that hideous virus
>with mouse support that is called win98.
>
>Also....found a great utility called 'uncook'.  It basically takes any
>files that were mistakenly sent to you as 'text' files (improper MIME
>type settings under Apache, etc), and fixes them so they are Binary
>files.  This seems to be a big problem with files received via http
>off some servers.  Mine is configured to send the apple filetypes as
>binary images, however, and it isn't necessary to 'uncook' files
>received off my server via http.  I'll post this great win32 utility
>on the binaries apple2 newsgroup.