Re: Apple II screen shots utility?

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Lazarus I. Long wrote:
>
> >"Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote in message
> >news:<bEYx9.22307$t1.20209@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>...
> >> Alas, I don't know exactly what to do with a bii file extension.
> >>
> >> a2snip.dsk.shk.bii downloads on my Win98 machine as a2snip.dsk.shk.htm
> >> I then remove the htm to get a2snip.dsk.shk, but when I try to
dearchive it
> >> with Nulib2, it says it is not a valid archive.
> >
> >There's a separate link on the same page for downloading for an
> >emulator running on windows, it's the .zip.uu version.  download that
> >one, and you should be able to unpack it on windows.
>
> It would be an unusual PC browser/FTP program that would have
> any problem at all with a .zip file--no uuencoding necessary.  (Many
> people don't even know what uuencoding is anymore.)

Files with a *.zip extension seem to do just fine with PC browsers, even if
the extension is used only for show.  Thus, a *.DSK file renamed with *.zip
can be downloaded by IE and changed back to *.DSK and used directly.

IE tried to save the file with the uu extension by default as a target named
a2snip.dsk.zip.htm.  Changing back to the uu extension before downloading
preserved uuencoding.

Fortunately, WinZip is able to uu-decode uuencoded archive files.

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