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

[someone@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner)]

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.

Greg B.

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