Re: Grrrr

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <34272F6D.6AB5@home.com>, Jeff Tacy  <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?

Well ProTYPE is a drag 'n drop app so you don't see much happen when it does
its thing. And since BASIC can access the TXT file you get after dropping
the binscii file on it (you wouldn't get syntax errors otherwise), that means 
ProTYPE is converting the file and it's copying right. So sounds like you need
to get binscii another way. 

Actually unless you really want to use binscii, you can skip it. Files with
names ending with .bsc and .bsq get binscii decoded when you drag 'em onto 
ProTYPE. If you use fetch like me and take five minutes or so to set up the
suffix mapping and post processing options, you can have resource fork
stripping and binscii decoding happen completely transparently and
automatically. Probably have to stick with the old fashioned way, dragging
and dropping files by hand, if you use Netscape to download.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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