Re: BINSCII problems

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling)]

In article <01bc3b93$29781c60$12c28e92@girnius-w-kc.kc.bls.gov>, "thedm"
<thedm@idir.net> wrote:

>The Problem I had was that the only download protocol available to me was
>binary.  You can still use it after downloading it binary, you just have to
>edit the BINSCII.txt before you EXEC it and remove the FIRST character of
>every line. This character is something that gets added when you download a
>txt file in binary. Remove that and exec it and will compile just fine. I
>fought with this for DAYS.

Maybe this was it. I will try to get Binscii from a server and let it
convert itself, checking out all the possibilities of what can go wrong,
when I am back from my holidays.
Maybe the file I tried was still extended, although it hadn't a resource
fork (like David Empson said).

Dirk

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