Re: Shrinkit to GS from Mac?

[davagatw@mars.utm.edu (DAVID A GATWOOD)]

Neil Parker (nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu) wrote:
: In article <4otu2j$nk1@news.vanderbilt.edu> lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
: (John Lesher) writes:
: >James Grubic (grubic@avicom.net) wrote:
: >: I have a partial T1 on my Mac, and I'd like to use it to transfer
: >: downloaded files to the GS I'm using. I got the program "BINSCII.EXE"
: >: (via ProDOS) onto the GS, but the thing won't execute! I keep getting
: >: ?FILE TYPE MISMATCH error. I've tried saving in every format I could
: >: think of from the Mac, but it either comes across as "unknown" or
: >: "AppleWorks". Apparently, the system basic can only read a system basic
: >: file, or perhaps an ASCII...I don't know because I can't get the file
: >: into one of those formats.
: >
: >: Is there a Mac utility out there that assigns the proper file creator
: >: to this BINSCII file? Or maybe creates the actual file so that I can
: >: put it onto a ProDOS disk and copy it over to the GS?
: >

Yes.  Get a copy of any System 7 tidbits disk before 7.1, I think, or maybe
even up through 7.1, I'm not sure -- before they started including PC
Exchange.  Boot your mac with extensions off and use the Apple File Exchange
program.  You have to boot with extensions off because otherwise PC
Exchange (newer versions anyway) will intercept the Apple II disk, mount
it, and AFE will think it's a Mac disk.  There may be more current versions
of AFE available to correct this from apple's FTP site, but I've never
bothered to check.

Hope that helps,

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