Re: Gscii

[treiter@comet.net (Toby Reiter)]

In article <4jnism$dmv@news.tamu.edu>, ewm1006@tam2000.tamu.edu (Erik
Wayne Mckee) wrote:

>I'm trying to get colorterm.bsq to unzip.  It says I need shrinkit.
>I downloaded shrinkit.bsq and supposedly I need GSCII to unencode it, 
>but I only find GSCII as an encoded .bsq file to.  How do I upencode it,
>shrinkit, and colorterm?  Do I need another program?
Hmmmmm.  I assume you are using your non-GS to download, and that you are
able to transfer files easily with it, ok.  At Grind, 
(ground.isca.uiowa.edu) to my recollection, under the heading "useful
stuff" is a copy of binscii in executable format (binscii.exe) I assume
you download this in binary mode.  You should then download the file
gshk.bsc.  Run binscii on this and you should get an executable version of
GSHK (Shrink-it GS...you don't really need Shrinkit, not usually anyway). 
Now, throughout binscii (I find it harder to use than GSCii+) and download
GSCII, again from the same folder.  Now run it through GSHK!  You should
now have an executable version of GSCii+..put this in you desk.accs folder
in you system folder.  If you still want Shrink-it, simply go the same
folder at Grind and download it, and then run it through GSCII+!  Piece of
cake!  (This is a really convuluted way of doing this, but it's the best
way in terms of getting what works best on the GS.)
One last option.  If you have a Mac, go to the folder "Mac" at grind. 
Download Commbin.  (You will need Stuffit Expander to use this).  Commbin
is essentiall BINSCII for the Mac.  SImply download GSHK or Shrink-it 3.4
and run it through Commbin, and you will get an exucutable program.
Hope that's enough fo now!

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