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BINSCII/GSCII Help



To Everyone Who Helped Me With My Foray Into BINSCII/GSCII+:
     Thank you.  You helped me figure it out.  The continuing support of the
Apple II community is prodding me to speed up posting of my list of
191 Apple II vendors.  (Don't get your hopes up.  The list is valid only
as of January of 1994, and I'm not updating it.)
     By the way, the conclusion of my BINSCII/GSCII+ thing is this:
GIFs and JPEGs off of non-Apple II USENET areas are usually encoded with
uuencode.
     You can tell it's uuencoded if the first line starts with "begin."
BINSCII starts with "FiLeStArT," although I don't know exactly which letters
are capitalized and which aren't.
     To unencode, I found two programs in Compuserve (my only source):
UUDECODE and the latest version of GSCII+.  Note that Compuserve does NOT
have the latest version of GSCII+, so it won't uuencode, only un-BINSCII.
--Niel
P.S.  Here's a sort of an Easter Egg for anyone who has read this far:
The funniest thing happened to me the other day.  I was in the Atlanta
Public Library looking for life insurance ratings and mutual fund newsletters.
I thought I would look at the list of all the magazines they have to see if
any would be useful to me.  Guess what I found?  Every issue from '85 to '89 of
inCider/A+!  A blast from the past.  I looked through a few copies.  It sure is
funny to see ads for the Laser 128 and articles on the super-blinding speed of
those new $200 modems with an incredible 2400 baud.