Re: Help with a new //gs...(me too!)

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sat, 06 Sep 1997 12:27:05 +0000, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>     Suppose, however, that you do not yet have a utility to do filetype 
>changing on the GS? Downloading one of the usual filetype changer 
>utilities may not be much help because it also ends up on the GS 
>with the wrong filetype. No way to change filetype means your GSHK.SEA 
>with the wrong filetype cannot be executed, and, once again, you're 
>stuck.

If all files that were uploaded were in Binary II wrappers, this
wouldn't be such a big problem.

If the person is using a communications program on their Apple II and
sending files via a null modem then there are two possibilities.  1)
The communications program might automatically strip the Binary II
wrapper and set the file's name, type, auxtype, etc.  2) The person
runs the BINARY.DOWN program to strip the wrapper and set the file's
info.

If they are transfering programs by swapping disks, running
BINARY.DOWN will still work fine.  Transfering from a Mac might be
easier to do using HFS disks and running HFSLink or A2FX on the Apple
II.

How do they get BINARY.DOWN you ask?  It should be available online
and being an Applesoft program can be made into an exec file.  This
can be transfered via null modem or disk to an Apple II and EXECuted
to create the BINARY.DOWN program.  I believe that the EXEC version
can also be sent directly to Applesoft if the person has no
communications program by issuing an IN#s, where s is the slot of
their serial card/port.  I'm not 100% sure of this as I have never
tried it.

BINARY.DOWN and BINARY.UP have both been printed in several Apple II
magazines and the listing could also be e-mailed to the person and
they could type it in manually if all else fails.

As this type of thing is what Binary II was created for in the first
place, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be used.