Re: Setting Prodos file types

[kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)]

bird@frost.rand.org (Eric Bird) writes:

>Hi.

>I am volunteering for an organization which recently received several Apple
>IIgs computers as a donation, which they are going to be giving to college
>students for their use.

>The computers came with no software except system 5.0.  I have read the
>FAQ and have determined that I need to get ahold of system 6.0.1 so that
>they can read and write HFS Mac disks (which is important to me).

>The problem is, I can't even get started because I can't get BINSCII up and
>running.  I don't have any comm software for the IIgs, but i have internet
>access from both a Mac and a PC.  I have downloaded the software I need,
>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?

>Thanks a lot.

>-Eric Bird
>eric_bird@rand.org

Try changing the Macintosh creator code to pdos and the filetype to TEXT
using a program like ResEdit before transfering the file to a ProDOS disk
use either Apple File Exchange or the Macintosh ProDOS Mounter Extension.

Karl Thomas,
New Ideas  (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu | karlt10062@aol.com)