Re: Setting Prodos file types

[sbdocker@acs.ucalgary.ca (Sean Brendan Dockery)]

In article <26lmaq$9q@frost.rand.org> bird@frost.rand.org (Eric Bird) writes:

| and edited the files, but whenever i try to do EXEC BINSCII.EXE I get a
| "file type mismatch", presumably because the file is of type $00.  (I got
| it onto a prodos disk by using the Prodos extension on my mac.)
| 
| the question is, how can I set the filetype of BINSCII.EXE to 'TXT' so that
| EXEC will recognize it?  I can't use the program suggested on the IIgs
| because it's encoded!  Is there any Mac (or PC) utility which can set
| Prodos filetypes?  Or does anyone have a better solution?

The easiest solution from BASIC.SYSTEM (that I believe will work) is...

]BLOAD BINSCII.EXE,T$00,A$2000,L<length>
]BSAVE TEMP,T$04,A$0000,B$2000,L<length>
]RENAME BINSCII.EXE,BINSCII.OLD
]RENAME TEMP,BINSCII.EXE
]EXEC BINSCII.EXE

The "T" parameter in the above commands overrides the type BINary
requirements of the BLOAD and BSAVE commands.  Save an old copy of the
original just in case. :)

This procedure will save on the problem of obtaining and mucking
around in a third party disk utility program.

| Thanks a lot.

You're welcome.

| -Eric Bird
| eric_bird@rand.org
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