Re: ground site & LemminGS

[dmasters@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dan Masterson)]

Joe Kohn (joko@crl.com) wrote:
: : >JB Cole <jbcole@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

: >> How do I make the LemminGS demo file on ground somethng my IIgs will
: >> recognize?

: The LemminGS Demo has been compressed with GS ShrinkIt.

: So, download the demo using either ftp or ncftp; if using ftp, you MUST -
: before downloading the file - toggle BIN file transfer. With ncftp, 8-bit
: BIN transfer mode is the default, so no toggling is necessary. Then, after
: the download, just run GS ShrinkIt.

: For some reason, Olivier Zardini uploaded the demo with the filename of
: LemminGS.Demo (or something like that). That, of course, will make it
: difficult to download the file using lynx or NetScape, as neither of those
: will recognize a filename extention of ".Demo" and will therefore download
: the file using a 7-bit text file transfer protocol. That of course will
: result in ShrinkIt saying that the download is "damaged."

Lynx had no problems downloading it either.  Yes, it was saved as a text
file, but GSHK doesn't care.  You could change the attributes to E0 and
8002 but it still unpacks with no problems either way.

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