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

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

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.

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