Re: Binscii problem w/ 40 MB external.

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) says:

>1. Did you remove the header in each of the files?  Binscii will not
>   properly use a binscii'd file if it has stuff like:
>
>   Path: NewsWatcher!user
>   From: mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)
>   Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
>
>   in it.  If they are there - remove them with a text editor.

Oh, contraire!  I have never had to trim header information from BINSCII'd
files to get them to process.  This was one of the major advantages over
the Executioner program which did burp on headers.  The problem this post
referred to sounds more like a simple failure to use the correct pathname.


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Eric S. Ford    ag471@yfn.ysu.edu