Re: Grrrr

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling)]

In article <34272F6D.6AB5@home.com>, slam@home.com wrote:

>How the heck does ProTYPE work? I downloaded it with netscape, and
>binscii.txt directly from Nathan Mates' FAQ, I dropped binscii.txt onto
>ProTYPE icon, the program started up and closed right after...I assumed
>it had done whatever it was supposed to do, and put it on a disk.
>Brought it to the iigs, and tried to 'run' the file...File type
>mismatch...Looked at the faq again, said to 'exec' the file...Did that,
>and there are a lot of beeps and ?SYNTAX ERRORs. Does Netscape always
>choose binary mode? Should I use a regular ftp program like Fetch?

I guess something went wrong during download, maybe binscii.txt still
has DOS-style end-of-lines. You should download it in ASCII mode.
I always get two syntax errors when executing binscii.txt, but after it
has created a working Binscii program.

If you just want to decode Binscii files, you don't need Binscii,
since ProTYPE does that on the Mac side. Please download ProTYPE v1.1
from http://www.mech.mb.uni-dortmund.de/mech/Dirk/ProTYPE.html
It converts BinScii files with DOS or UNIX style end-of-line formatting,
too, so you don't have to worry about ASCII/BIN mode settings.

Dirk

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