Re: Even More Basic Marinetti Help Wanted: What's step 1?

[spectrumdaddy@nospam.com (Ewen)]

Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have one question for you, however: your downloads page at
> http://homepage.mac.com/speccie/dwn.html has some Apple II files that
> have a .txt extension, such as http://homepage.mac.com/speccie/help.txt.
> 
> What should one do to get these file uncompressed and executed on the
> Apple? Why haven't they been BinHexed or something?

They are all mainly BXY files in a BinSCII wrapper. I encoded them in
this fashion, and used the .txt extension, simply to try and get them
past browsers that insist on messing up binary downloads.

As many of them are related to my program Spectrum, which can extract
UUencode, Binhex, or BinSCII, from the 'Decode File' option, any form of
downloading should keep them in a format that can then be passed to
GSHK.

As newer browsers can be a little smarter than those from the past, I am
now tending to use just the plain BXY file, and not encoding them
further with BinSCII.

Ewen