Re: Shrinkit to GS from Mac?

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

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?

Pardon if this is wrong, but I always got the impression that files
which ended in .EXE were for execution on an IBM only.  If you want
the binscii utility, you can probably get it from the same site, only
as a .shk file (which you gotta unshrink before using).

Tilghman