Re: BINSCII GSCII Help

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <3pcvdk$8pi$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com>, Niel Loeb
<76451.631@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
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> in GSCII+, but since it's just the credits, I don't worry about it.
>      I got a couple of jpg and gif files off a couple of USENET binaries
> areas.  I cut off everything before the line that says, for example,
> Begin PICTURE.1.GIF. 

were the files binscii files?  that is, did they have the bsq/bsc filename
extensions?
 
>      I cut off everything after the line that says
> end
fun, but not needed - SCII+ will ignore the extra junk

>      I saved the file as a TXT ASCII file.
>      Using BINSCII, it mulls the computations for a while and stops with
> no results.
>      Using GSCII+, it shows it's doing the conversion, then says, "not a
> Binscii or BinHex file."  This occurs whether or not I activate the box
> that talks about separating Mac files.

it sounds as though you either have minhex files, or binary files of some
sort - at least, not uuencoded or binscii files.

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