Re: BINSCII problems...

[Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us>]

On 18 Feb 1996, RUBYWAND wrote:

> In article <4g3nlp$8b1@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
> mlamorte@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Mike LaMorte) writes:
> 
> >
> >I downloaded all the BINSCII files from grind, but it doesn't do
> anything!
> >I read all the instructions, and did everything like it told me, but
> still
> >no luck... I'm trying to get AMDOS to work, and I obviously need BINSCII
> >to do it. Any suggestions?
> >
> >
>    When you run the program named BINSCII and tell it to UnConvert a
> Binscii file, you usually end up with some kind of packed file, like an
> .SHK file. Sometimes, the sender does not add the .SHK (or whatever)
> suffix. You might try viewing the file in case the creator included some
> text info at the start.
>----- snip ------ 

Several people seem to be missing the point here. You can not run BINSCII 
until you HAVE binscii. I, too, tried downloading the exec file and using 
it. I does not work as advertised. It creates a binary BINSCII file, 
which is about the same size a the system binscii file (which I have on 
another disk). But, that binary file will not BRUN and the Prodos 
Exerciser can not read the file type so I can change it to "sys". The 
exerciser tells me that there is some problem with the file. In other 
words, there seems to be some problem with that exec file, BINSCII.V103X 
which is found on grind (I mean on "ground")


Cyrus Roton   croton@ridgecrest.ca.us
Ridgecrest Apple User Group