Re: Binscii problem

[khym@wixer.bga.com (Dave Huang)]

In article <mark-210993110354@128.157.9.145> mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:
>Let's try some simple mistakes people make when using binscii'd files:
>
>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.

Sure it will... that's what's so great about BinSCII! :-) You don't
have to cut headers and you don't have to make sure the pieces are in
the right order...

>3. Always give full pathnames for where the files are.  Binscii is not
>   the most brilliant program when it comes to looking for files.  You
>   may think it will look for a file in the current directory and it
>   may think it should look for them in /&#^%^#.

Yeah, this sounds like the most likely problem... BinSCII's user
interface sucks :)
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Dave Huang
khym@wixer.bga.com