Re: EXE file type?

[Tinman@cottage.ecore.fnet.org (Tinman)]

In Article <4rbq9v$nub@news.ysu.edu>,
<be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:

>be404@yfn.ysu.edu (Adalbert Goertz) wrote:

>>>> OK. I extracted GSCII+ which also came with a file
>sscii which latter is an EXE file for the GS.
>Apparently GSCII+ which is NDA is equivalent to SSCII which is EXE.
>So, how do I use SSCII ?

SSCII is of filetype EXE on the Apple, which is an executable shell
file. This means you need to run it from a shell of some sort, such
as Orca or GNO. I know SSCII runs on Orca. For brief documentation,
using Orca, simply type in sscii (with the pathname if necessary; for
example, if it's in the directory /MAIN/ADALBERT, and the prefix in
Orca isn't set there, type /main/adalbert/sscii). One thing that this
particular help file isn't very clear on is how to change between
encoding and decoding files. For decoding files, don't use the -e
switch. For encoding files, do use the -e switch. Also, you may need to
use the wildcard = if there is more than one BinSCII file that you
need to decode into a single file. For instance, if you want to get
GSHK from the BinSCII files GSHK.000, GSHK.001, GSHK,002, and GSHK.003,
then you want to use the command "sscii gshk.=".

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