Re: Extracting Problem?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <2o5g0b$ib8@cyber2.cyberstore.ca>,
John Blaby <jblaby@news.cyberstore.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 1994 16:20:26 GMT, Steven Nelson
> (snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote: 
> > Use the p8 version, BINSCII, to decode .SEA files.  GSCII+ and
> > sciibin (unix) both have a bug that produces invalid SEA files.
> > (They aren't really corrupt, but have some extra bytes at the end
> > of the (mod 48, I think) that messes up the GS loader.)
> 
> This interesting. The compiled version of sciibin that I have at my
> unix site handles SEA files fine.

And so it should.  I'm not aware of any problem of this nature with
SCIIBIN, only with GSCII+ and SSCII (the ORCA/Shell version of GSCII+).

You have to set the filetype back to S16 after downloading.

It is very important that the file is downloaded to the IIgs using a
protocol which preserves the exact length, e.g. ZModem or YModem.
XModem will round the length up to a multiple of 128 bytes; the
resulting file will probably have the wrong length and will get the
Loader error.
-- 
David Empson
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