Re: OS for GS-- getting Sys 6.0.1 from Apple's ftp site

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jeff Blakeney writes ...
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:27:24 -0500, someone@wavetech.net (Greg
> Buchner) wrote:
> 
> >In article <35E6BB23.9ABC54BC@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
> >
> >>     Since, for some weird reason, Apple maintains each disk in
> >>binscii-ed .bxy form, the conversion process takes two steps.
> >
> >Wierd reason?  The internet isn't always 8-bit data friendly.
> >
> >When I just had a freenet access to the internet, sometimes binscii
> >was the only way I could get stuff.  I had limited disk space and
> >couldn't download larger files to my directory so I ended up just
> >dumping them to the screen.
> >
> >Worked great, but it would have been really difficult to do if
> >it was just a .bxy file.
> 
> If you go to Ewen Wannop's home page, you will find that all his
> software is made available on his page as BINscii files as well.
> 
> The main reason he did this was so that people using Spectrum Internet
> Suite, which only supports a 7 bit connection at present, could access
> his web page and still be able to download the software he has made
> available there.
> 
> I think this is awfully thoughtful of him and he will probably change
> to BXY files once SIS gets updated to an 8 bit connection.  Keep in
> mind that the v1.1 update to SIS that is coming out is not supposed to
> support 8 bit connections yet.  That won't be until the next update,
> from what I hear.


     Thanks for the info, Jeff (and Greg). I guess it won't kill those
using PCs and Macs for net access to put up with the extra bother of
.bsc files on a few sites.



Rubywand