Re: Binscii problem

[David Williams <dlw@neosoft.com>]

Adam Myrow wrote:
> You have two options.  1: get sciibin for Unix from ground.isca.uiowa.edu in
> the unix directory.  You'll need sciibin.c, crc.h, and a third file (I think
> it's called ftype.h.)  Get them on your unix box in one directory, and type
> "cc sciibin.c -Oso sciibin" all on one line.

Thanks, I'm going to go ahead and try that on one of my Unix boxs.

>  2: if that's too complicated and
> you have a lot of ram, set your ramdisk to 800K and decode with regular old
> binscii and boot from Prodos 8 if possible.  That way, you can use the ramdisk
> as a second 3.5-inch drive.  You need at least 1 meg to do this.  Hope that
> helps.

*Slapping forehead*
Why didn't I think of that! :-)  Tried it last night any everything
worked fine
although it took a couple of tries to get the ram disk right.  I can now
run GS/OS
6.0.1 which was what this whole thing was about.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

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