Re: Help with BINSCII

[boylek@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Kevin J Boyle II)]

In article <1993Jan16.204907.12653@umr.edu> scotth@cs.umr.edu (Scott Hayes) writes:
>First, I would like to thank everyone who has tried to help me already.
>
>Unfortunately, I'm still haveing trouble getting BINSCII to work.
>Part of my problem is the only transfer protocol I currently have
>on my Apple IIc is XMODEM.  First, I ftp what I want from the Internet
>on an IBM-compatible workstation at school.  I get someone to run
>ProComm+ in host mode so I can download files via XMODEM to my Apple
>IIc.  Next I tried "-BINSCII.EXE" in ProDOS, but got nothing but
>"SYNTAX ERROR"s one after the other.  Next I wrote a BASIC program
>to change all the CHR$(10) (Unix end-of-line) to CHR$(13) (Apple's
>end-of-line) characters.  Then I tried "-BINSCII2.EXE" (which is what
>I called the new file) and it actually started doing something!  Then
>it ended in 3 "SYNTAX ERROR"s.  (Boy!  That burst my bubble!)  Well,
>I decided to try the BINSCII (ProDOS SYS) file that was created.  
>I tried several .BSQ files.  They all ended up with a type of $E0
>and none of them would run.
>
The new files (with type $E0) are compressed files.  You need to use
Shrinkit to unpack them.

>
>Help,
>Scott
>scotth@cs.umr.edu
>
>Remember: I'm not a regular so please e-mail me.  Your help so far
>  really has been appreciated.  Thanks!

(Perhaps some ex-lax could help with this... :)

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